re: lost access to all programs after XP Home installed on same partition as XP Pro
Saturday, March 25, 2006 at 8:24 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jean
(10 messages posted)
Thank you both - Rich & AnchorMan. I'm just getting back to working on that computer
and, you've both told me what exactly what I thought. Even though it's not what
I wanted to hear, it's always nice to get confirmation from others! Thanks for your
replies. Wish me luck!
P.S. AnchorMan - my friend's upgrades are costing him more now than if he just did
things the right way to start with! ;-)
On Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 8:32 pm, AnchorMan wrote:
>What Rich said... Also you cannot "run" his old programs because they are on a different
>path then the Home install. You need to "unhide system files" and also "hidden folders"
>to see any on the old data. Once you unhide everything you can do a search for docs
>etc. and should be able to find everything. (Set the advanced options in the search
>to include hidden and system files) You can also reinstall all the programs and
should
>give access to old files. Good luck... Just shows it ain't worth the "free" upgrades.
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