Data or Program Settings Are Missing After You Install Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;313362

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

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"Pilot172" wrote:

| Just upgraded from Windows ME to XP Home, first off everything seemed OK
| but shortly after completing upgrade everything hung up and pc would not
| respond.
|
| Re-installed XP, now it works but all previous programmes appear to
| have been uninstalled - the files are still there, as is data, but
| desktop is blank and not much will run.
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| I haven't been able to find any uninstall option for XP to get back to
| ME.
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| Is there anything I can do to "recover" some sense of normality and get
| my previously installed programmes running? Some of these were
| internet downloads/upgrades and registration keys, etc for these were
| in e-mails (Outlook) that I have not been able to find in my new,
| rather empty, XP world.
|
| Pilot172 in a spin.....
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| Pilot172