Over the weekend, I upgraded my Gateway laptop machine from WinME to WinXP Pro. I had OXP and Norton Antivirus installed under WinME. So far, it has been an interesting evolution —
WinXP broke Norton Antivirus 2002 (as noted in a previous thread). Symantec’s web site pretty much says only NAV 2002 will work, and you must uninstall it, then reinstall it. Of course, the compatibility checker in XP didn’t tell me that.
When I took the laptop on the road (removing the network board, and swapping the CD-ROM drive for the floppy disk drive to provide what I need away from the office), I found that OXP decided that was a major change, and needed to be reactivated. It launched in the “limited functionality mode” which really should be “almost no functionality mode”. Everything had always worked fine under WinME when I went on the road.
When I got back home, I tried to reactivate over the Internet, and it wouldn’t let me. A relatively painless phone call to M/S and 15 minutes later, it seems to be working again.
Hopefully, this might help others.
