xp upgrade

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From: MeSnowStalker (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/19/04 

Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 09:13:18 -0700

Your best bet is not to upgrade at all. Do a clean
install as some of ME's files will be left and cause
prolems someday. At least this has been my experience. MS
should have done a recall on ME as it is probably the
worst piece of programing ever written.

>-----Original Message-----
>i am trying to upgrade from ME to xp home. i get error
>message: Library Load Failure err 1157 485 during system
>examination stage. any ideas please?
>.
>

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