XP upgrade whacked various programs

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I upgraded my Vaio from the buggy and annoying ME to XP
abour 6 weeks ago. The upgrade was overtly uneventful.
However, since that time, daily I discover more anomalies.

OF COURSE, XP destroyed Netscape -- I guess I was almost
resigned to that -- but the fact that XP only recognizes
128M of the 256M of memory installed does surprise me. I
had to de-install the Norton Personal Firewall and THEN
re-install it. I can't even de-install Norton AntiVirus -
- it complains about files it cannot find and goes
bellyup.

So I am trying to be goodnatured about this, but it seems
that Microsoft should assume a TEENY bit of
accountability for these glaring errors. I am not a
newbie -- been doing this for 30 years. I AM a Unix
snob, but experiences such as this certainly bolster my
support for Unix in all its flavors.

Has anyone else ecperienced this? Any resolutions?
TIA.
 
penelope said:
OF COURSE, XP destroyed Netscape -- I guess I was almost
resigned to that -- but the fact that XP only recognizes
128M of the 256M of memory installed does surprise me. I
had to de-install the Norton Personal Firewall and THEN
re-install it. I can't even de-install Norton AntiVirus -
- it complains about files it cannot find and goes
bellyup.

So I am trying to be goodnatured about this, but it seems
that Microsoft should assume a TEENY bit of
accountability for these glaring errors. I am not a
newbie -- been doing this for 30 years. I AM a Unix
snob, but experiences such as this certainly bolster my
support for Unix in all its flavors.
Click to expand...

The resolution is to do a bit of planning in advance - and especially to
remove all those things that go down into the system and pick up on
(probably undocumented and unguaranteed) interfaces. The main
categories are AV and 'system utility suites'. especially by Norton or
McAfee, which do this on a grand scale. Microsoft cannot be expected to
maintain items in a totally different kernel so as to suit the methods
of these people. Also remove CD burning software. Read Gary
Woodruff's article on upgrading to XP at
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpupgrad.htm

Netscape AFAIK was retained when I upgraded ME to XP - but that was back
at NS 4.7.

The 128 MB may be a known bug in the system information tool - check
instead at Control Panel - System - bottom of the general page
 
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