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Old April 5th 04, 01:15 PM
David Candy
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Default XP Upgrade trouble

ME was not a poor system dickhead.

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"Nick" wrote in message =
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Hello,
First off ME was a poor system and most people I talk to have said =

that. I have also heard that XP works better with 512 MG ram. Did you =
possibly go for XP updates without a firewall being turned on? That =
would be an open invitation to the blaster worm among many other virus =
problems if the Norton isn't working. I had ME crash and had many =
errors. Personally I found the best answer was to go into bios and set =
the system to reboot with the cd-rom first instead of the floppy. Then I =
reformated the hard drive when promted by the XP cd as to how I wanted =
to proceed after I restarted the pc. Now I happen to have a full =
version, if you have just the upgrade it may want you to put the ME disk =
in just to verify that you can legally use just the upgrade. Formatting =
the hard drive will wipe the slate clean. Then you reload the programs =
you want and need. It takes time and is extreme but I think this is the =
best way. At least it was for me. But remember to get your XP updates =
after reinstalling Norton Virus protection from a back up cd. Also turn =
on the XP firewall or purchase a better one to go with your Norton anti =
virus protection. If you don't you run the possible risk a another =
problem with a virus or trogan that would defeat all the work you just =
did. If you were not getting a lot of errors and the slow down, there =
might be some other options but in your case that is what I would do. =
And if programs are not working correctly this could also be as a result =
from switching windows systems. Then taking them out and reloading =
would need to be done anyway. So this is why I say reformat. Others may =
give you other ideas, the choice is up to you. Nick P.S. After all =
this, get on line for free Adaware and Spybot programs to keep pest out.
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