2nd try.
My newly installed XP seems to be on a different partition (?), and none of
my programs or files are accessible. If I go through explorer to the "C"
drive, everything is still there, and I can access it. However, none of the
programs are availabe through "start/ all programs/..." and most programs
still won't open when I access them from explorer when signed in to the
"new" XP.
Would I be better off just re-installing my programs? I have discs for
Office/Norton/Corel/autoCad etc that I have ownership of, but all of the
stuff that was pre-loaded I guess I will lose.
My question becomes, how should I handle all of the programs? Should I
remove them, then reload new copies. I can't get them to show up if I go
thru "start/ control panel/add-remove Programs". Should I just delete them
from the explorer listings? Can I move them so that my new "system user"
can
see them?

Suggestions????
thanks -



"BL Ankstone" <BOGUSblankstone@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uO7U6qtzFHA.3256@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Ever hear the term "...just enough to get himself in trouble"? Here I
> am.
> Dell 8200, XP Home. Seemed to be running differently lately, so I ran all
> my
> normal stuff (Norton, ad aware, MS spyware etc), but still was slow
> loading
> pages, programs etc. Loaded a copy of Reg Clean (I believe, it was
> reccommended on Langa List newsletter) and I was having so much fun
> cleaning
> stuff off, I guess I went tooo far. I beleive that my troubles are
> related
> to the "duplicate copies" files. It searched, found a bunch of stuff, but
> it
> wasn't obvious what I was supposed to do with all of it after it finished
> finding them all. Eventually, I would up freezing while I was trying to
> get
> out of/do something with them. I had to shut down the machine, and upon
> start-up, NO XP!!.
> I wound up booting from the reinstallation disk, and I also reiinstalled
> XP.
> XP seems to woking fine now, but its a new install. The problem is, after
> I
> was able to find my programs and all thru explorer, most won't open,
> giving
> error or file missing messages. I guess what I actually want, is to get
> my
> programs to run by reinstalling the missing files I removed, and to get
> the
> best of both worlds, reap the benefits of a clean XP install, but get my
> settings/favorites/files back in the current version of XP.
> Anybody care to help me find my way home??
> thanks- Kevin
>