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Reinstall again
The brand new XP Pro installation having been
crapified by AVG9.0 free edition, which instantly quarantined a dozen just-loaded O/S files, I set about reinstalling it. Not so easy! The XP Pro won't get to the reformat page from the DVD but insists on booting what's on the HD instead. If you try to start from the running O/S, it wants a validation code. The XP Home CD is the same, but since I have a validation code for it, I can do the overwrite of the old O/S there. Then having installed XP Home, the XP Pro DVD will let you overwrite it with Pro without complaint. This gets you a clean SP3 which then can deal with windows update. I notice AVG 2015 gets a general error and quits if you try to install it, at the step where it looks for any updates. That's another reinstall. -- On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk. |
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