One more time and I wll slither off into the weeds

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Glenn

I have been offered the time and advice of so many of you, especially Jan
and I thank you but I still have the problem.

I went to 'add and remove' in control panel to remove sp2 in preparation of
a repair of OE but the warnings were so dire, I chickened out. Perhaps my
xp pro cd is not what you folks have but I can find nothing there about a
repair on it anywhere. One recommendation was to reload sp2. I did so with
no solution forth coming. There is a popup saying something about if a sp2
was loaded on top of another sp2 that neither could be removed but I
established a checkpoint before doing it and I did back it out with 'system
restore'

My xp cd has really 2 options. One is a full install. If I should do that,
I realize the updates would have to be redownloaded. That's no big deal, I
just did that on my backup machine by formating the hd and reloading win98
from the cd. That had IE & OE clear back to ver 5 or so and it upgraded
just fine to 6.+ and works fine. No one has been clear of just what happens
if a full install is done *over* an existing xp. Will it write over every
xp system and give me a new basis to start upgrading again? Would it mess
up anything else on the hd like programs installed.? Would I have go to M$
and get it re authorized?

Option 2 that I can see on the cd. 'Check system computability, check my
system automatically'. I click on that one and get a popup saying .

"Setup cannot continue because the version of Windows on your computer is
newer than the version on the CD.
Warning: If you decide to delete the newer version of Windows that is
currently installed on your computer, the files and settings cannot be
recovered"

OK, *what settings and files* If it is just simple settings, no big deal.
If it screws up my network settings that took me forever to get right, I
might not proceed. I'm living with thunderbird now, if it can't be fixed, I
can continue. Didn't I hear that M$ was coming out with an upgraded version
of OE, not that I think that would fix anything {g}

I get all these dire warnings but nowhere does it do more than allude to
disaster. Does anyone really know what *would* would happen?

Perplexed, Glenn
 
may I suggest going here and seeing of they can help you answer these
questions cause they have techs on the staff groups.msn.com/communityfeedback
 
Glenn, please reply to your original thread here (Subject: A toughy).
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE) & Security
I have been offered the time and advice of so many of you, especially Jan
and I thank you but I still have the problem.
Click to expand...
<snip>
 
I can't thank you enough for pointing me to my problem.

That said, I and I'll bet a lot of folks would still like answers to the
questions in my post above.

Anyone?

Glenn
 
Sorry you don't understand what PA Bear is trying to tell you and help you
out.
Good luck.

Tom
|I can't thank you enough for pointing me to my problem.
|
| That said, I and I'll bet a lot of folks would still like answers to the
| questions in my post above.
|
| Anyone?
|
| Glenn
|
| | > Glenn, please reply to your original thread here (Subject: A toughy).
| > --
| > ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE) & Security
| >
| > Glenn wrote:
| >> I have been offered the time and advice of so many of you, especially
Jan
| >> and I thank you but I still have the problem.
| > <snip>
|
 
????????????? Perhaps you should re-read my post. I know PA Bear helped me
and solved my problem. Didn't you even read the first line? I thanked him
for the help.

There are still a lot of people I'm betting, myself included, that would
like to know the answers to my questions just for general knowledge.

Glenn
 
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