Pardon me a polite chuckle.
And just to clarify, she bought a new to her laptop but a previously owned machine? The reason I ask that is no one is selling laptops preinstalled with Windows 95 these days.
The rest of this is just a guess based on what I'll assume the specs are for a laptop that would have had Win 95 on it.
Windows 98 would be a better choice than Windows 95 if you're going to stay the with Windows family. I sincerely doubt it'd have the processor speed or more importantly the amount of memory required for Windows 2000 much less XP. One thing I'd recommend her doing is to either take it to the local computer repair shop and tell them to max it out on memory which shouldn't be too expensive of a proposition (assuming they can scrounge up the appropriate sticks) and will make the machine as good as it's going to get.
That help any? Specs on the actual machine (processor speed, amount of memory and hard drive size) could help the geeks on here figure out what the machine could handle. Final question, which should have been first, is what does she want to do with it? If it's just to surf the web, type papers, etc, I wouldn't worry about it.
$.02
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I don't think of myself as a lion. You might as well, though - I have a mighty roar. Jubel Early
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