I am working on a Dell Dimension 4300 that came loaded with Me. Recently I upgraded from Me to XP Home version. However, I have had to uninstall and revert back to Me in order to at least be able get online. As soon as I upgraded I started to receive an error message that reads - One of the library files needed to run this application cannot be found UNICOWS.DLL. After doing some research I came to realize that i must have contracted the virus when I first upgraded to XP since it does not effect Me. Even though I reverted back to Me I still get the error message. I have since cleaned up all viruses with Norton Antivirus and deleted. The error message seems to affect when I login to the internet. Online tech support at MSN said the problem would be cleared up by simply reinstalling from MSN 9 from my cd. This has not helped. Any suggestions? I am about ready to try reinstalling Me from my reinstallation cd provided from Dell. But wonder if this will help or is the best thing to try next. Help
Your apparent mistake was in upgrading, rather that performing a format and clean installation of Windows XP. Use the WinXP Upgrade CD to
format the current partition and install Windows XP from scratch. Formatting will remove the virus, and allow XP to install properly. This has been documented dozens of times in this site, and there are really no good reason to vary from this oft-proven practice. Upgrading rather than formatting and clean installing is just plain
bad news. Forget about WinME. Keep the WinME CD-ROM to verify that you're eligible to use an upgrade CD when installing XP, and other than that, don't ever imagine for a moment that you're going to be better off with WinME, because you're not.
Tonto Goldstein
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Posted January 25th, 2004 04:00