Re: programs downloadable to flash drive?

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"Brian A." <gonefish'n@afarawaylake> wrote in message
"Jo-Anne" <naples@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My NIS is 2008. So you're saying that I could go ahead and install Norton on
my other computer, do Live Update, and then download and install
SP3--possibly without a problem? I wanted to avoid having to fix the
registry, even if Norton did it for me.

I suggest creating a Restore Point or better yet a backup image if you have
a backup app such as Acronis True Image, Norton Ghost or another similar type
app. Then if something were to go awry you could restore the drive/partition
to the way it was before the issues.


Are you planning to put SP3 on your computer? I was going to do that first
thing, although I'm wondering now if I should wait til it's offered as an
automatic update... (I know this is getting off the subject, but I'm just
wondering what you think.)

I have no plans to install SP3 on this machine at this moment in time, as
with any new software/hardware updates/upgrades I'll wait until the bugs are
pretty well cleared up. I do have XP Home/Pro installed in Virtual PC for
guinea pig testing purposes but NIS isn't installed on them to test out with
SP3. On another note, I do have a scheduled image backup that will run at
1:30 AM on 8/10 (an hour and a half from now) on another XP Pro SP2 machine
that has NIS 2008 installed. After the image is created I'll run LiveUpdate,
then install SP3 to see what happens and report back the results.

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Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Windows Desktop User Experience }
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"Jo-Anne" <naples@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank you again, Brian! It will be good to know what happens.

Jo-Anne


Done deal without a hitch, from what I see so far no issues are present which
were mentioned in the article. I also tested the major apps/progs I use on the
machine and they all have a clean bill of health. If I do find an issue
sometime/somewhere I'll post back on it.

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Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Windows Desktop User Experience }
Conflicts start where information lacks.
http://basconotw.mvps.org/

Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://dts-l.com/goodpost.htm
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375



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