RE: One more time and I wll slither off into the weeds
- From: "©KJW" <KJW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 08:45:02 -0700
may I suggest going here and seeing of they can help you answer these
questions cause they have techs on the staff groups.msn.com/communityfeedback
--
KJW
"Glenn" wrote:
> I have been offered the time and advice of so many of you, especially Jan
> and I thank you but I still have the problem.
>
> I went to 'add and remove' in control panel to remove sp2 in preparation of
> a repair of OE but the warnings were so dire, I chickened out. Perhaps my
> xp pro cd is not what you folks have but I can find nothing there about a
> repair on it anywhere. One recommendation was to reload sp2. I did so with
> no solution forth coming. There is a popup saying something about if a sp2
> was loaded on top of another sp2 that neither could be removed but I
> established a checkpoint before doing it and I did back it out with 'system
> restore'
>
> My xp cd has really 2 options. One is a full install. If I should do that,
> I realize the updates would have to be redownloaded. That's no big deal, I
> just did that on my backup machine by formating the hd and reloading win98
> from the cd. That had IE & OE clear back to ver 5 or so and it upgraded
> just fine to 6.+ and works fine. No one has been clear of just what happens
> if a full install is done *over* an existing xp. Will it write over every
> xp system and give me a new basis to start upgrading again? Would it mess
> up anything else on the hd like programs installed.? Would I have go to M$
> and get it re authorized?
>
> Option 2 that I can see on the cd. 'Check system computability, check my
> system automatically'. I click on that one and get a popup saying .
>
> "Setup cannot continue because the version of Windows on your computer is
> newer than the version on the CD.
> Warning: If you decide to delete the newer version of Windows that is
> currently installed on your computer, the files and settings cannot be
> recovered"
>
> OK, *what settings and files* If it is just simple settings, no big deal.
> If it screws up my network settings that took me forever to get right, I
> might not proceed. I'm living with thunderbird now, if it can't be fixed, I
> can continue. Didn't I hear that M$ was coming out with an upgraded version
> of OE, not that I think that would fix anything {g}
>
> I get all these dire warnings but nowhere does it do more than allude to
> disaster. Does anyone really know what *would* would happen?
>
> Perplexed, Glenn
>
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