Re: Upgrade to XP Pro

I deleted Service Pack 2 and then again tried to upgrade. The upgrade did
stall once but I was finally able to finish the upgrade. However many of my
shortcuts and programs no longer work.

After reading some knowledge base articles I find that OEM installations
have a file called Undo_guimode.txt that should not be there and must be
removed before the upgrade. None of the articles about upgrading mentioned
this. I don't have a restore disk from the OEM. Is there anyway to get these
links back and restore proper program operation.

Also I can't find any infomation on how to uninstalled Windows XP Pro in
another partition of the hard drive. I had installed this copy of Windows XP
Pro to double boot and leave XP home in place but I could never get it to
work properly so I reverted to upgrading XP home which was my first choice in
the beginning.

I now know I have done a couple of stupid things but if anyone has any
advice that would help me out of this mess I would appreciated it.

Thanks,
Dave
"Dave Rams" wrote:

> Thanks for the reply Ken.
>
> I have installed SP2 on the home version. I will uninstall and then try it
> again. I did go to the site you suggested and tried to create a bootable disk
> with the information there. Are you saying the fact that I have SP2
> installed in the WinXP home addtion is preventing the integration of the SP2
> files into the XP directory?
>
> Dave
>
> "Ken Blake" wrote:
>
> > In news:C686E470-AA74-4261-A2D3-947AB55320AA@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> > Dave Rams <DaveRams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
> >
> > > I am trying to upgrade from the OEM XP home addition I received
> > > with
> > > my computer to XP Pro. But when I try to install I get error
> > > message
> > > that the date of my XP Pro disk is older than the OEM date and
> > > stops
> > > installation.
> > >
> > > I purchases the XP pro disk shortly before I purchased the
> > > computer to
> > > upgrade my laptop but I didn't have enough space so I purchased
> > > a new
> > > desktop which came with XP home installed. I am learning to
> > > program
> > > with VB.net and want to use a server to program web programs in
> > > ASP.net but I have to have XP Pro to set up the server. Any
> > > ideas how
> > > to get around this problem.
> >
> > Presumably you have SP2 installed, and your XP Professional
> > Upgrade is without it, so is an older version than what's
> > installed.
> >
> >
> >
> > If I'm right, you have two choices:
> >
> >
> >
> > 1. Uninstall SP2, do the upgrade, then reinstall SP2.
> >
> >
> >
> > 2. Create a slipstreamed version of XP Professional, including
> > SP2, and use it. See
> >
> > http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?t=7262
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> >
> > Please reply to the newsgroup
> >
> >
> >
> >
.

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