XP Pro Upgrade

[Guest]

When I decided to upgrade from WindowsXP Home Edition SP2 to WindowsXP Pro
SP2 I bought the Upgrade version of XP Pro and as I know nothing re
installing and reformatting, I got someone to do it for me.
After this person finished the reformat he went ahead and, using only the
WindowsXP Pro Upgrade, he installed it on my computer.
I mentioned that I thought that I he would have had to install the
WindowsXP Home Edition SP2 first and then linstall the WindowsXP Pro
He assured me that this was not the case.
Ever since he completed the job I have had nothing but trouble.
The person that did the job now tells me that the problems I am having are
caused by McAfee AV ver 11.0 and not the way he did the Upgrade.
Did he do the right thing by just installing the upgrade?

chequer

 

[Bruce Chambers]

When I decided to upgrade from WindowsXP Home Edition SP2 to WindowsXP Pro
SP2 I bought the Upgrade version of XP Pro and as I know nothing re
installing and reformatting, I got someone to do it for me.
After this person finished the reformat he went ahead and, using only the
WindowsXP Pro Upgrade, he installed it on my computer.
I mentioned that I thought that I he would have had to install the
WindowsXP Home Edition SP2 first and then linstall the WindowsXP Pro
He assured me that this was not the case.
Ever since he completed the job I have had nothing but trouble.
The person that did the job now tells me that the problems I am having are
caused by McAfee AV ver 11.0 and not the way he did the Upgrade.

He may be correct; McAfee has a pretty bad reputation. However, it's
impossible to say, as you've neglected to provide any sort of
information about the sort of problem(s) you're having.

Did he do the right thing by just installing the upgrade?

Certainly. It's quite possible to perform a clean installation using
the WinXP Upgrade CD, provided one has the true installation CD for the
earlier OS.

One need simply boot from the WinXP Upgrade CD. The Upgrade CD
checks to see if a qualifying OS is installed, and, if it finds none, it
asks the user to insert the installation media (CD) of that OS.


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[Ghalib]

Hi,
I think the this is guy is right and You should remove the McAfee
because it has no goodwill in the market... and then I suggest you that
you should install the Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 10.x. It
the best and Install any firewall of Norton too. It is good.
Now you should post that what sort of trouble you are facing... man to
get the correct sort of help.

 

[Guest]

I said I didn't know much.
I seemed to recall that once when I upgraded to a later version of Word That
I had to have the previous version installed first.
One problem for example is that when I tried to reply to this message a
while ago the computer froze when I tried to send it.
The problems seem mainly to be associated with Outlook Express and IE.
When I received your reply I tried clicking the link in OE to take me to the
MS forum page, it froze again. I can get out of it by using Task manager or
CTRL ALT DEL but it takes ages for the 'End Task' box to appear.

Previously I uninstalled McAfee AV ver. 11.0 as I was having trouble with it.
I also used the McAfee 'Complete removal tool ' , mcpr. exe as supplied my
Mcafee.
This tool is supposed to remove all files pertainaing to McAfee Av but when
I ran this removal tool I finished up with this message: Only part of
'ReadProccessMemory' or ' WriteProccessMemory' was completed.
How can I get rid of what is left?.
I now believe that what was not removed is now interfering with my Computer.
There are heaps of IE shortcuts, empty McAfee folderscan these be deleted?, .
and also a dbx file, ' Mcafee.dbx'

Keith


He may be correct; McAfee has a pretty bad reputation. However, it's
impossible to say, as you've neglected to provide any sort of
information about the sort of problem(s) you're having.

Did he do the right thing by just installing the upgrade?

Certainly. It's quite possible to perform a clean installation using
the WinXP Upgrade CD, provided one has the true installation CD for the
earlier OS.

One need simply boot from the WinXP Upgrade CD. The Upgrade CD
checks to see if a qualifying OS is installed, and, if it finds none, it
asks the user to insert the installation media (CD) of that OS.

 

[Alias]

Hi,
I think the this is guy is right and You should remove the McAfee
because it has no goodwill in the market... and then I suggest you that
you should install the Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 10.x. It
the best and Install any firewall of Norton too. It is good.
Now you should post that what sort of trouble you are facing... man to
get the correct sort of help.

LOL! Norton has a worse reputation than McAfee does!

Alias

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

When I decided to upgrade from WindowsXP Home Edition SP2 to
WindowsXP Pro SP2 I bought the Upgrade version of XP Pro and as I
know nothing re installing and reformatting, I got someone to do it
for me.
After this person finished the reformat he went ahead and, using only
the WindowsXP Pro Upgrade, he installed it on my computer.
I mentioned that I thought that I he would have had to install the
WindowsXP Home Edition SP2 first and then linstall the WindowsXP Pro
He assured me that this was not the case.
Ever since he completed the job I have had nothing but trouble.
The person that did the job now tells me that the problems I am
having are caused by McAfee AV ver 11.0 and not the way he did the
Upgrade.
Did he do the right thing by just installing the upgrade?

Yes. I can't tell you what's causing your problems, since you haven't
provided any details, but it's *not* the way he did the upgrade
installation, which is perfectly fine. The requirement to use an upgrade
version is to *own* a previous qualifying version's installation CD, not to
have it installed. When setup doesn't find a previous qualifying version
installed, it will prompt you to insert its CD as proof of ownership. Just
insert the previous version's CD, and follow the prompts. Everything
proceeds quite normally and quite legitimately, and that's presumably what
he did.

When he tells you the problems are caused by McAfee, he may well be right
(it's a poor choice, in my view), but I can't tell.

 

[Guest]

When I was using Windows 98SE I was also running Nortons AV and had constant
problems, that is why I switched to McAfee.
Since I removed McAfee, there are heaps of IE shortcuts, empty McAfee
folders and also a dbx file, ' Mcafee.dbx' .Can these be safely deleted?
I have now installed the AVG Free Edition AV 7.5 to try. Is this a proven AV
program?
So far I am only having 1 problem, as far as I know, with AVG,
I am running a program called 'MailWasher' that filters out Spam.
Running this in conjuction with AVG causes 'MailWasher' to take up to 10
minutes to download an Email.
It apperas to be Ok if I download my mail dirert through 'OutlooK Express.
It may be that 'MailWasher' is the problem.

 

[Guest]

Thanks sgopus,

I'll have to look elsewhere then