Reinstall XP (box set) w / updated version and keep the settings?

My old installation of XP Professional (ver 2000 / SP1 retail box) is not working properly.  Hundreds of antivirus, fixes Registry scans, updates and several hard drive card mother upgrade and later I lost some basic features *.  Can I reinstall XP using a downloaded newer version (SP3) using my old key (commercial box version) and keep all my settings?  I remember that I did this a few years ago and had to rebuild all the updates, but I got what I needed.  Now when I try, the same original disk says that I must start over costs and versions are not compatible.  Also, where is the best place to get the installation files?

A most annoying things is the delay huge opening files.  Some never open and I get a message unable to find the file, that I just clicked?  I reinstalled all affected programs (like Office 2003 / Excel) and there is no improvement.

Interesting responses.  I was not on top of the issue of IE, but it makes sense.  It has been a few years, but I remember that the successful repair XP restored my IE and I've had to update again, but he did not screw up the repair.  I think that IEv7 was in use at the time.  I am currently on IEv8.

My restore points do not rise close enough to fix all of this and the last one I tried (up to a point a week or so prior) failed.  3rd party patches registry improve some things, but not all.

I have the original disc of the 2002 version of the retail box.  No download version.  I was hoping to find one online as I did for S7 in my newsroom.  For this installation, I bought a key provider of Microsoft and it worked fine.

Maybe I'll start a couple of new threads for specific problems.

Tags: Windows

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