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I finally went and uninstalled Win XP when I got tired of the hangups from
explorer. I thought that it would be less then a three hour downtime from
the uninstall to getting the system back up again. Wrong!!!!! Started on
Sat and still working on in Sunday Night/Monday Morning. The problems were
formitable. The first one was Normalz.dll error on the first re-install.
This error popped up after I called and re-activated windows (long story and
it still has me mad, and now I get to do it again today). After trying to
figure out what the problem was, I re-formatted the drive again and
re-installed. This time went better, though I still have to re-activate
(over the phone again-and if the person don't speak enough english or has any
common intelligence enough to understand, I'll have to speak with the
supervisor AGAIN!) Now Windows won't let me install the proper drivers even
though I used the disks. I'll install the disks and reboot, but windows
seems to have a problem with it. I installed my Verizon Q for use with
activ-sync and used the old drivers, the system would not take it out of the
unknown device area even though I directed windows to the right driver both
on the computer and on the disk. Ditto with updated drivers I downloaded and
failing that re-downloading the updated program with embedded drivers. My
MP3 player, it reads as a Mass storage device no matter what I do. I tried
to also direct it to the right driver, but it goes through the 'found new
device' screens and still won't install the driver (new or otherwise) I
really don't want to use Media player 11 to manage my MP3 player due to the
program is a wate of time and space on my hard drive. Media monkey works
better for it and is less intrusive, but can't use it with my MP3 player if
windows can't pull it's head out of it's ass and use the driver that's needed
(when it's pointed out to it). I don't know whats going on but most of the
devices that need drivers that microsoft doesn't include on it's disk do not
want to load.
The devices that windows don't want to use even if the drivers are pointed
out to them
Motorola Q
Creative Nomad Xtra
Logitech Bluetooth Mouse Keyboard
generic USB enclosure for sata drive
Lite-on dual layer dvd burner (windows lists it a a cd drive-manufacturer
says use windows driver, but it came up right before the re-install)
All these devices worked before the format and re-install and I'm current up
on all the updates.
What the heck is happening?
And now my rant- I've had Windows XP Pro since about a year after it came
out and have re-installed it a total of 5 times (4th and 5th time if you
count this weekend). First time when the Hard drive went bad (three years
ago), second time when I changed motherboards and cpu (just under three years
ago), third time when I upgrade my hard drive, video card, sound card, new
dvd drive, and added more ram (last year), and now the forth-fifth time this
weekend. Why do the people at the re-activation center treat you like your
lying to them. If they checked my Coa number they would see that I'm not
over re-activating it and (I don't know if windows still checks for
configuration changes) it changes configuration only once in a while. The
first problem I had was the lady when she asked why I needed to reactive, I
informed her why and her first response was totallly diffrerent then what I
told her, I corrected her and she gave me back the same response she said
before. What is so hard to understand about re-installing
becouse of an explore.exe problem? She then proceeded to tell me that I
needed to purchase a new disk and COA since I had installed it on a new hard
drive last year even though I had formatted it (the old one) and am using it
as a backup drive. Then I asked to speak to a supervisor, explained to him
what was going on and he got me re-activated. Is it going to be that much of
a problem to re-activate in the future?
explorer. I thought that it would be less then a three hour downtime from
the uninstall to getting the system back up again. Wrong!!!!! Started on
Sat and still working on in Sunday Night/Monday Morning. The problems were
formitable. The first one was Normalz.dll error on the first re-install.
This error popped up after I called and re-activated windows (long story and
it still has me mad, and now I get to do it again today). After trying to
figure out what the problem was, I re-formatted the drive again and
re-installed. This time went better, though I still have to re-activate
(over the phone again-and if the person don't speak enough english or has any
common intelligence enough to understand, I'll have to speak with the
supervisor AGAIN!) Now Windows won't let me install the proper drivers even
though I used the disks. I'll install the disks and reboot, but windows
seems to have a problem with it. I installed my Verizon Q for use with
activ-sync and used the old drivers, the system would not take it out of the
unknown device area even though I directed windows to the right driver both
on the computer and on the disk. Ditto with updated drivers I downloaded and
failing that re-downloading the updated program with embedded drivers. My
MP3 player, it reads as a Mass storage device no matter what I do. I tried
to also direct it to the right driver, but it goes through the 'found new
device' screens and still won't install the driver (new or otherwise) I
really don't want to use Media player 11 to manage my MP3 player due to the
program is a wate of time and space on my hard drive. Media monkey works
better for it and is less intrusive, but can't use it with my MP3 player if
windows can't pull it's head out of it's ass and use the driver that's needed
(when it's pointed out to it). I don't know whats going on but most of the
devices that need drivers that microsoft doesn't include on it's disk do not
want to load.
The devices that windows don't want to use even if the drivers are pointed
out to them
Motorola Q
Creative Nomad Xtra
Logitech Bluetooth Mouse Keyboard
generic USB enclosure for sata drive
Lite-on dual layer dvd burner (windows lists it a a cd drive-manufacturer
says use windows driver, but it came up right before the re-install)
All these devices worked before the format and re-install and I'm current up
on all the updates.
What the heck is happening?
And now my rant- I've had Windows XP Pro since about a year after it came
out and have re-installed it a total of 5 times (4th and 5th time if you
count this weekend). First time when the Hard drive went bad (three years
ago), second time when I changed motherboards and cpu (just under three years
ago), third time when I upgrade my hard drive, video card, sound card, new
dvd drive, and added more ram (last year), and now the forth-fifth time this
weekend. Why do the people at the re-activation center treat you like your
lying to them. If they checked my Coa number they would see that I'm not
over re-activating it and (I don't know if windows still checks for
configuration changes) it changes configuration only once in a while. The
first problem I had was the lady when she asked why I needed to reactive, I
informed her why and her first response was totallly diffrerent then what I
told her, I corrected her and she gave me back the same response she said
before. What is so hard to understand about re-installing
becouse of an explore.exe problem? She then proceeded to tell me that I
needed to purchase a new disk and COA since I had installed it on a new hard
drive last year even though I had formatted it (the old one) and am using it
as a backup drive. Then I asked to speak to a supervisor, explained to him
what was going on and he got me re-activated. Is it going to be that much of
a problem to re-activate in the future?