Yes, one has to uninstall the last public preview beta (January, I think).
Some folks say you have to reboot twice. It all seems like voodoo. Anyhow,
after several tries and several hours on the first one, I started booting
twice, running registry cleaners inbetween, disabling WLOC and WD, etc. I
had no further troubles. I did the last one and didn't do anything, but
uninstall and reboot, and it worked fine with WLOC and WD purring along. So
who knows? I posted as a heads up so some might avoid the frustration I
had. Only who of these four had used RSS. And not the last one I did, so I
have no definitive evidence on any of it.
BTW, FWIW, either of these Beta 7s are far superior to IE6. They are more
secure, rock solid, rarely find a page that doesn't display right, seem to
crash much less often. I have only had the "we are sorry but IE must close
now" message once with IE7. Which is why I put it on my three PCs and my
work PC. Of course, we know we are playing with fire, but I find that MS
public beta software is usually pretty reliable. Usually being the
operative word. Of course, I may end up having to reinstall Windows from
scratch if something goes wrong, but it is not as if I hadn't done it
before.
By the way, back to WD, another install of WD (on my laptop) stopped
updating and I had to uninstall WD and reinstall it. That means that 0 of
my original installs with the original download remains. I reinstalled with
the 2/23/06 Beta 2. So far none of these, I think, have failed.
Oh, and finally Bill, I hadn't notice the MVP after your name before. Is
this recent? Whether recent or not, congrats. A long, long time ago in a
Galaxy far away I was a MS Money MVP. It was very nice until they found out
all the other Money MVPs answered all the questions. LOL. Actually I was a
teacher at school without a computer (then) and all the questions would be
answered by the time I signed on. I always appreciate the time and effort
people give on these forums! Thanks.
