Re: Carey (or anyone) Can't get rid of XP Pro upgrade...........

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From: Jim Ratchford (JimRatchford_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/02/04 

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 14:55:03 -0800

Thanks Frank, but I waited for nine hours (over night) and it was still at
the light blue screen.
Jim

"Frank" wrote:

> Jim Ratchford wrote:
> > and go back to 2000 Pro. I'm not knowledgable about this enough to know the
> > words to ask the question right. I upgraded from 2000 Pro to XP Pro. I only
> > turned off Norton Security (if that's the problem) and it may have reinstated
> > itself on bootup with the new XP installed.
> > It will boot thru the WINDOWSxp screen with the blue dots, then goes black,
> > then it goes light blue (not the crashing blue), the kind of light blue that
> > comes just before my desktop appears. The cursor also shows and moves. But it
> > never goes beyond that. Have tried eveything in my limited knowledge.
> > What do I need to do?
> > Thank you very much for your help,
> > Jim Ratchford
> >
> Maybe wait up to 5 min for it to completely boot-up. I experienced
> exactly the same problem...couldn't figureout what was wrong. Rebooted,
> went to get a bit to eat, came back and it had completely booted up.
> After that, it booted normally.
> Frank
>