upgrade to xp with PC Anywhere

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Dwight

I am trying to upgrade from 98SE to XP Pro. I had PC
Anywhere 10 on machine but uninstalled it. XP Pro claims
it is stillll there and I cannot get rid of it for XP.
Have cleaned Norton, symantec, , various file extensuions
out of registry, but XP says stuill there. It never did
show in Add/Remove and haev tried reinstalling but no show
in add/remove, but XP keeps seeing it in upgrade and
refuses to upgrade. Ideas????
 
An upgrade from 98 to XP is not always a no-brainer. Your computer should
be a P-III or better, with 256 MB of RAM or more, and 2 to 3 GB of free
space on the hard disk at a bare minimum. If not, then leave Windows 98
installed for the balance of the computer's lifetime.
In your case, I'd suggest doing a clean install. Make a backup to tape or
to writable CDs of your data files, address book(s), e-mail files and
configuration settings. Have your old Win 98 CD on hand, and all the install
CDs of your applications. Make a CD of all the XP-specific drivers for your
hardware by visiting the manufacturers' web sites and downloading the latest
drivers.
Then boot from the Win XP CD, and run Setup. Choose New Installation
(Advanced) and delete the primary partition. Note that this deletes **ALL**
information on that primary partition, so be sure you have backed your files
up onto a removable medium such as tape or writable CDs.
Early in the Setup process, you'll be asked to insert your Windows 98 CD
into the CD drive, where Setup will read some files from it, ask you to swap
back the Win XP CD, and the rest of it proceeds smoothly.
It's time-consuming to run a clean install, but the end result is a
computer without any backward vestiges of Windows 98. That alone is worth
the effort.
 
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