Uninstalling XP Home

[Roger Neilson]

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My son has had horrendous problems in being unable to connect to the
internet since upgrading to XP and has only done the upgrade because
he wanted to run an IPOd and it seemed to only operate with XP. He has
now found that there is IPOD software that runs with ME, his original
O/S. According to the help files on Windows this seems a very
straightforward operation to un install XP and be left with his
previous ME.... is it that simple or are there some dangers?

Cheers

Roger

[Rifleman]

"Roger Neilson" > wrote in message
...
> My son has had horrendous problems in being unable to connect to the
> internet since upgrading to XP and has only done the upgrade because
> he wanted to run an IPOd and it seemed to only operate with XP. He has
> now found that there is IPOD software that runs with ME, his original
> O/S. According to the help files on Windows this seems a very
> straightforward operation to un install XP and be left with his
> previous ME.... is it that simple or are there some dangers?
>
> Cheers
>
> Roger

Would you like to post these problems here? Someone will surely help and ME
is HORRIBLE compared to XP!

[Michael Stevens]

Roger Neilson wrote:
> My son has had horrendous problems in being unable to connect to the
> internet since upgrading to XP and has only done the upgrade because
> he wanted to run an IPOd and it seemed to only operate with XP. He has
> now found that there is IPOD software that runs with ME, his original
> O/S. According to the help files on Windows this seems a very
> straightforward operation to un install XP and be left with his
> previous ME.... is it that simple or are there some dangers?
>
> Cheers
>
> Roger

How is he trying to connect to the internet? Usually all that is necessary
is to run the connection wizard and follow the prompts. There is seldom a
need to install any specialized software supplied by the ISP. If he is
trying to setup using the same software he used for Me, then this is his
problem. He needs to check the ISP for updated an XP compatible version. But
as I said, it is rarely needed.
Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address box.
Remove XP and install 98/Me
http://michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html#how5
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[Roger Neilson]

His problem would appear to be that his USB is motherboard mounted and
somehow turns off whenever he tries to use it with XP - hence hanging
the system. He has em ailed his motherboard supplier but has received
less than helpful advice regarding flashing the bios etc. he really
does not want to go down that road. Thanks for the link below, I will
pass it on to him.

I love XP myself, but he really does regret ever touching it!

Cheers

Roger
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:50:46 -0800, "Michael Stevens"
> wrote:

>Roger Neilson wrote:
>> My son has had horrendous problems in being unable to connect to the
>> internet since upgrading to XP and has only done the upgrade because
>> he wanted to run an IPOd and it seemed to only operate with XP. He has
>> now found that there is IPOD software that runs with ME, his original
>> O/S. According to the help files on Windows this seems a very
>> straightforward operation to un install XP and be left with his
>> previous ME.... is it that simple or are there some dangers?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Roger
>
>How is he trying to connect to the internet? Usually all that is necessary
>is to run the connection wizard and follow the prompts. There is seldom a
>need to install any specialized software supplied by the ISP. If he is
>trying to setup using the same software he used for Me, then this is his
>problem. He needs to check the ISP for updated an XP compatible version. But
>as I said, it is rarely needed.
>Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address box.
>Remove XP and install 98/Me
>http://michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html#how5