Post XP Pro upgrade issues (palm, windows display, help and suppor

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Just did an upgrade from XP Home to XP Pro. Seems to have gone fine but
under the new OS I'm getting a few unusual things.

Perhaps the most significant is that Palm Desktop fails ("needs to close"
message) when it is first fired up. Upgraded to the most recent version
4.1.4 but still have the problem.

The color of the task bar isn't what I think has been set. When I go to set
up the format of the task bar it looks like I should get the version where
"start" is on a green background (standard) but what I get is a taskbar on a
gray background.

I also can't get Start>Help and Support to work at all. (This may be
because I'm having trouble getting the OS activated.) When I select help and
support it looks like its trying to go there but then there is a small flash
of the desktop icons (like it's refreshing them) and then nothing.

Because that last one may be because the new OS hasn't been activated, can I
force starting activation or do I just need to wait to catch the pop up
reminder window?

Finally, things seem real slow. Will Pro be noticably slower than Home for
things like boot?

Thanks

Tom
 
The color of the task bar isn't what I think has been set. When I go to set
up the format of the task bar it looks like I should get the version where
"start" is on a green background (standard) but what I get is a taskbar on a
gray background.
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Fixed the color of the task bar (display didn't come over as it was on Home).

Also, now have another application failing (Jewel Quest).
 
Just wanted to add a clarification. I'm not asking for help debugging Palm
Desktop of Jewel Quest or, for that matter, any other applications that seem
to be effected by the conversion from Home to Pro. I just want to understand
if there is some more obvious reason why any application might not run in Pro
vs Home on a computer with everything else the same.

Thanks

Tom
 
I'm also noticing an unusually high number of "screen refreshes" going on.
This is where there is a flash of the icons displayed on the desktop and, if
inside a folder somewhere, the content of the folder is refreshed including
returning to the top of the folder list.

Tom
 
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