Microsoft ME to XP upgrade

[Guest]

Dear all

This weekend I decided to upgrade my Windows ME home edition to XP home
edition. I have the following problems

Microsoft installer hangs when trying to install from he internet and hangs
the associated web page. I left it for a while then had to stop the process
through task manager.
Norton Anti-virus seems to think my licence has expired when it hasnt.
Word (2000 edition) hangs at the splash screen and you dont get word
displayed in the task manager. Although WINWORD.EXE pops up in the process
view.
Excel (2000 edition) hangs at the splash screen and main window.
Strangely enough Outlook works fine

I have upgraded Office 2000 through Service Pack 1a, 2 and 3.

Can anyone help. A very helpful person in the Office Communities suggested I
start from scratch by reformatting my hard disk but that means I have waster
50 quid on buying the upgrade pack and I need to go and buy the whole thing.

Any ideas?

Ade

 

[Jerry]

You do not have to buy the 'whole' thing if you still have the ME CD so that
the XP install routine can validate the upgrade. You will be asked to insert
the ME CD during the XP install - no big deal.

 

[Guest]

ade,windows xp needs 128 of ram and windows xp home and pro need at least 256
of ram.have you checked how much ram is in your pc?just today i put more ram
in my daughters pc as hers was hanging and so slow and could only run one
page or programme at anyone time,so i put in 128 of ram and the problem is
solved,running smoothly.so GET MORE RAM?