Re: Upgrade from Windows Me to XP

From: Jupiter Jones [MVP] (jones_jupiter_at_hotnomail.com)
Date: 06/26/03 

Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 19:48:30 -0600

Amit;
I think you posted to wrong thread.
However if you are referring to upgrading your Windows XP Home Spanish
to Windows XP Pro English, ALL Data will be lost.
Back-up all important data before you start. 

-- 
Jupiter Jones  [MVP]
An easier way to read newsgroup messages:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/newsgroups/setup.asp
Please respond to newsgroup only for everyone's benefit.
"Amit Kvint" <info@kvint.co.il> wrote in message
news:079b01c33b74$bc869e90$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> Thanx,
>
> What info do you think I will loose?.
>
> Amit
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Walter;
> >That information about the password is completely false.
> >In Home the Administrator password is blank by default.
> >Reboot, tapping F8 each second.
> >Select Safe Mode at the menu.
> >Then go to User Accounts in Control Panel.
> >Select Administrator.
> >Set password as desired.
> >
> >-- 
> >Jupiter Jones  [MVP]
> >An easier way to read newsgroup messages:
> >http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/newsgroups/s
> etup.asp
> >Please respond to newsgroup only for everyone's benefit.
> >
> >
> >"Walter" <wkusju2@aol.com> wrote in message
> >news:059801c33b55$1ab82300$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> >> Gentlemen:
> >>
> >> I have recently upgraded my operating system from
> Windows
> >> Me to Windows XP Home Edition.  I have a few problems
> to
> >> iron out.  I decided to upgrade in order to improve
> >> security and to keep up to date.  I was particularly
> >> interested in the local firewall feature of XP.  At
> this
> >> date, I'm not sure if I have made progress or regress.
> >>
> >> When I purchased my Gateway PC, with the Pentium 4
> >> processor, in September of 2001, it came with the
> Norton
> >> Anti-virus Software Package, which has become a
> casualty
> >> of the upgrade, due as you may know to incompatibility
> >> with XP.  I was also surprised to find a list of
> cookies,
> >> which I thought I had turned off.  I still get Pop-up
> Ads
> >> even though I instructed AOL to turn off the pop-ups.
> >> But the last straw has to be the hidden backdoor
> >> mentioned in an article from a two-week old copy of
> >> Business Week, which indicated that there is an
> >> administrative account with a password known to guess
> >> who? (A) Microsoft personnel, (B)nameless, faceless
> >> government personnel; (C) nosy hackers; or (D) all of
> the
> >> above?  In any case I don't like the situation.  What
> can
> >> I do to remedy it?
> >>
> >> Thanks for your attention.
> >>
> >> Walter
> >>
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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