Re: OE Wiped Clean......???

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"Heather" <figgs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "DGuess" <majik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "Heather" <figgs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> > On rereading this.......remember, I have WinME.....is this an XP
>> > solve??
>> > *Permissions* seems a bit strange, not to mention I can't find that, so
> I
>> > thought I had better ask.
>> >
>> > The Dinosaur.
>> >
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>> I thought you had upgraded to XP a while back. So basically we're
>> playing
> tennis with a basketball. Just ain't working out.<<<<
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>
> TOTAL DISASTER!! Spent 24 hours with a constantly crashing XP and I
> followed all the directions to the nth degree!! Took 9 tries to get it
> installed coz it was almost completely installed when it kept reverting
> back
> to "installing devices" or some such.....and then brief black screens.
> Had
> to go forward....couldn't go back coz ME was not there.
>
> Long story short......uninstalled XP, but it left a ****load of XP folders
> and files on the WinME hard drive......been slowly removing them, but this
> seems to be another twist in the ME/XP saga......no clue as to how it
> happened.
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>> What did Tools | Options | Maintenance tab | Store Folders show for the
>> OE
>> message stores? If it was the Applog folder, somehow it was moved to it
> but
>> then, that's WinMe and could have been there. I don't have that installed
> on anything around here.
>
> Nope....it is now the Casey Identity that I was using before......never
> thought to check that when I had nothing on here.
>
> This is getting way too involved and messy. I think my best bet is to get
> the local tech to put XP on a new HD and take the data off WinME as I need
> it and then eventually reformat it.....if that is possible. Most of it
> is
> backed up except for the odd new thing......will do that backup as well.
>
> Working OK now.....but still no Quick Launch and I have given up on that.
> About to defrag and see if that helps. System Restored 3 times.....back
> to
> last Thursday....didn't help.
>
> Blasted computers!! OTOH, I am your best *victim*.....if it is something
> weird, it always happens to me, grin!! I invented Murphy's Law!!
>
> Thanks, ***.....Heather
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No wonder things aren't going right. I think you may well want to start it
on a fresh setup. Is there any hardware that didn't pass the XP Compability
test? BIOS update, etc? I just upgraded a computer for a lady that M goes
to church with from WinMe to XP and had no problems. Well, there were some
but I updated things in WinMe first and also removed all the spyware, etc.
After that, the upgrade to XP Home went fine.

Never had a problem installing XP on anything so far and I've done quite a
few upgrades. Any hardware that was suspect, I pulled first then did the
install. Have to use Drivers.com a lot at times.

Now I know why I never cared for WinMe.



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