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I was having trouble with OE, recently and the question of sp2 fixing it.
My problem is fixed but It lead me to a bunch of questions for general
knowledge that I'm sure a lot of us would like answers to. My
questions.....
I went to 'add and remove' as I was advised to do 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 had 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 formatting 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? (Which is a bunch of nonsense, I might add.)
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 no where does it do more than allude to
disaster. Does anyone really know what would happen?
Perplexed, Glenn
I was having trouble with OE, recently and the question of sp2 fixing it.
My problem is fixed but It lead me to a bunch of questions for general
knowledge that I'm sure a lot of us would like answers to. My
questions.....
I went to 'add and remove' as I was advised to do 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 had 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 formatting 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? (Which is a bunch of nonsense, I might add.)
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 no where does it do more than allude to
disaster. Does anyone really know what would happen?
Perplexed, Glenn