Upgrade from XP Home to XP Proffesional dialup fails

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Armend

Today I upgraded my laptop from XP home edtition to XP
Professional.Having done that all my dial up connections
were deleted and when I tried to create new ones I
couldnt because the option for dial up connection in the
New Connections wizard was grayed out.

I tried to start the Remote Access Connection Manager
but i got the error message : Error 5,Access denied.

Does anybody know what should I do ?

Thanks

Armend
 
Armend said:
Today I upgraded my laptop from XP home edtition to XP
Professional.Having done that all my dial up connections
were deleted and when I tried to create new ones I
couldnt because the option for dial up connection in the
New Connections wizard was grayed out.

I tried to start the Remote Access Connection Manager
but i got the error message : Error 5,Access denied.

Does anybody know what should I do ?

Thanks

Armend
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You did an upgrade from an XP Pro cdrom that did not include
Service Pack 1 and the previous installation of XP Home did include SP1.
When you did that upgrade, you removed SP1 and all XP Critical Updates
including the one that deals with the RPC vulnerability exploited by the
MSBLASTER worm and its variants. Before you connect to
the Internet, make sure you are behind a router with a firewall
or have a functioning third-party firewall or have the XP ICF
enabled. Then you will need to immediately go to the Windows
Update site and get all Service Packs (SP1A) and critical updates
installed. SP1A will need to be installed separately and be sure
to reboot before going back for the rest of the critical updates.

This article will restore your Dial Up connection:

You Cannot Create a Network Connection After You Restore Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;329441

You Cannot Create a Network Connection After You Restore Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;283673&Product=winxp

Windows Update
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp
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