"Paul" wrote in message
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| Can someone help me with an issue with my XP Pro installation? I installed
XP
| Pro months ago and it did not recognize most of the programs I had on my
| system. Like Frontpage, Dreamweaver, AdobePagemaker, CorelDraw etc, etc.
So
| it looked like a crap install. Everything did work fine, little slow but,
| fine. But now I have the need to use some of the programs and couldn't. I
| went into the system and deleted most of the crap and now I'm getting
popups
| galore. Question(s): When I installed XP Pro should that have deleted
| everything on the system that it could not use? And, Can I reinstall XP
again
| but, would it help?
| Thanks for any help
| Paul

What was the OS you upgraded? What do you mean, XP "didn't recognize" your
applications? What "crap" did you delete, and how did you delete it? It
sounds to me like you need to format and clean install. Before reinstalling
any of your applications, find out if the versions you have are compatible
with XP and then update those that aren't. It's possible that some older
applications will run on XP in compatibility mode--look it up.