XP upgrade blocking issue: pcAnywhere 10.0

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Please - is there some way to absolutely remove what is blocking this XP
home upgrade from win ME? pcAnywhere 10.0 was removed years ago, I have done
the obvious like removing keys from the registry with the words pcAnywhere
and Symantec. I then do a text search for these -- and user.dat and
system.dat still have these strings even after using regedit to clean them
out. Several other files on the machine also have these strings and I have
deleted what I felt safe deleting. Some appear to be system files. Thanks
 
Sorry for duplicate issue posting. I looked for the original and missed
it -- please ignore
 
Why don't you tell us *specifically* exactly WHAT happens when you try
installing WinXP. What error messages do you get? etc, etc, etc

IOW: "insufficient data", as presented.
Please - is there some way to absolutely remove what is blocking this XP
home upgrade from win ME? pcAnywhere 10.0 was removed years ago, I have +
done the obvious like removing keys from the registry with the words
pcAnywhere
and Symantec. I then do a text search for these -- and user.dat and
system.dat still have these strings even after using regedit to clean them
out.
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So what? That isn't necessarily the problem here! Again, "insufficient
data".
 
tgroover said:
Please - is there some way to absolutely remove what is blocking this XP home
upgrade from win ME? pcAnywhere 10.0 was removed years ago, I have done the obvious
like removing keys from the registry with the words pcAnywhere and Symantec. I then
do a text search for these -- and user.dat and system.dat still have these strings
even after using regedit to clean them out. Several other files on the machine also
have these strings and I have deleted what I felt safe deleting. Some appear to be
system files. Thanks
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You're mis-informed, PCAnywhere is not an application that blocks other systems
such as a firewall would. PCAnywhere is a network application that is used to
connect to a remote PC and use it as if you were sitting at the remote PC.

Now if you mean that you have to log in starting with the 3 finger salute when XP
gets booted, you need to replace any awgina.dll files with the original msgina.dll
files. I still have the registry files from 2004 saved aside for the hives/keys that
contained awgina.dll for PCA v10, I now use PCA v11.5 which doesn't replace the
msgina.dll with awgina.dll files. I found 7 files, if you would like to look at them
for reference I placed them on a temp web page I use. I have changed the extension
from .reg to .txt safety purposes and there may be a duplicate or 2 since some came
from different machines.

I've placed them at: http://basconotw.mvps.org/inq4.htm

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Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Windows Desktop User Experience }
Conflicts start where information lacks.
http://basconotw.mvps.org/

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