Downgrading from accidental upgrade to V5 of winupdate

From: Daniel (vincenpc_at_cox-internet.com)
Date: 07/15/04 

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 08:10:57 -0700

Right, as I said before, I am unwilling to
reformat/reinstal Windows XP on my computer, as I only
have one HDD, and several gigabytes of important files
that I cannot back up due to sheer size, I had an idea
however, when the v5 windows update sysetem is released to
the public, will I be able to run it properly? Or am I SOL
and will just have to bite the bullet and reformat? I
thank JMax for his help with pointing out the URL for v4
(It had totally slipped my mind) If there is *anything*
short of reformatting I can do (crawling through the
registry, unpacking .cabs from my winxp CD, *anything*)
I'm quite willing to do this, I am not a novice computer
user and I am not afraid with tinkering with the
underpinnings of my operating system.
>-----Original Message-----
>I accidentally upgraded the windows update feature on my
>computer to the beta version (5), I was wondering if
there
>is a way, short of reformatting (Which I am somewhat
>willing to do as I'm getting a secondary HDD soon) to fix
>this problem, unfortunately, at the time, I had
>SystemRestore disabled, so that is not an option; any
help
>would be appreciated....
>.
>

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