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Windows 2000 removal
Posted by steve on March 7th, 2004


My neighbor had a Win2000 problem. He loaded the install
disk and re-installed win2000. Then he decided to repair
the original version. Now there are 2 copies resident on
his computer.
How can I remove the unwanted copy?

Posted by Dave Patrick on March 7th, 2004


You can delete the windows directory for the second install (possibly
\winnt2)

Control Panel|System|Advanced|Startup and Recovery, choose the correct
System Startup option as default, then you'll need to delete the options you
want removed from the boot.ini

Explorer|Tools|Folder Options|View, then radio button for "Show hidden files
and folders", then uncheck the box for "Hide protected operating system
files" to locate the files in the system partition.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


"steve" wrote:
| My neighbor had a Win2000 problem. He loaded the install
| disk and re-installed win2000. Then he decided to repair
| the original version. Now there are 2 copies resident on
| his computer.
| How can I remove the unwanted copy?



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