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02-15-2003, 11:24 PM
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need some guidance
well i finally made the upgrade from win 98 se to win xp pro and I am having a few issues and was wondering if someone can show me the light. The first problem i have is reinstalling norton AV after uninstalling norton utilities. The utilities loads but the AV portion of the program refuses to install, i've even tried just installing AV and i end up getting an error message....the problem is that everything worked peachy keen running under 98. The other main problem i have is accessing certain sites such as espn.com or having IE not work properly when trying to d/l the 1.a patch from mickeysoft. I do have sp 1 installed, but i'm a newb to xp and was wondering what i am doing wrong and what can i do for some performance tweaks and such to have my box do what it used to do. specs as follows.... amd 800mhz socket a running on a asus k133 board with 512 megs o ram, 20 gig hard drive, plextor 16/10/40, pioneer 12x dvd, and sblaster live cheapy version...
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02-15-2003, 11:42 PM
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Mondsreitersmann
Join Date: Jul 1999
Location: Skingrad
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Hi there,
Did you upgrade over the previous W98 installation or did you do a fresh install? What is your version of NAV?
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02-16-2003, 07:25 AM
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Member (10 bit)
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it was an upgrade...and its norton 2k3
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02-16-2003, 12:58 PM
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Mondsreitersmann
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Is there a posibility you reformat and do a fresh install of XP? Without installing 98 at all?
I think that the trash left by W98 is the cause of your problems. |
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02-16-2003, 03:21 PM
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that would be the ideal thing except that i have no way to back up my data unless i watned to use a few hundred cdr's...i have about 6 gigs of mp3's and another 6 or so in movies that i've collected so my only real option would be to wait until i get a new drive which i may do so this week and transfer my data...
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02-16-2003, 03:35 PM
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Mondsreitersmann
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Yup. That is the way to go.
And when you get the new HD, make more than one partition so this situation won't happen again. |
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02-16-2003, 06:13 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Illinois
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I had similar problems with Norton when I upgraded from 98 to XP. Formatted and did a clean XP install and no more Norton Problems.
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02-18-2003, 09:37 AM
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Member (10 bit)
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Location: Morrisville,NC, US
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Unistalled xp and will reinstall once i get a fresh hard drive
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02-18-2003, 09:52 AM
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Location: Kelowna, B.C., Canada
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You don't need to lose all your stuff...Any data you have can be kept, even on the same partition, you don't even need to format.
There's a real easy way to get a fresh install of XP on there, and then install programs from scratch, so you don't have all the 98 garbage interfereing. |
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