Re: deleting win98 by jam14o on April 11th, 2004 12:27:16 AM
Try renaming the folder to something like "Win2dows". Then restart your PC. If Windows 2000 complains about missing files, you know that it still needs the old WINDOWS folder.
If you need to de-rename the folder because it is still needed boot into Command Prompt or the Recovery Console.
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Re: deleting win98 by on April 11th, 2004 04:33:20 AM
That's a bit drastic! Start a command prompt from Program Files or enter CMD in the Run box. In the window, enter SET - you'll get a long list of stuff, somewhere in the towards the end will be "SystemRoot=", which tells you the Windows folder you've installed W2000 into. It'll probably be C:WINNT - if so, you can safely delete the WINDOWS folder. The W2000 install would have shown which folder it was going to use during that process.
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Re: deleting win98 by jam14o on April 11th, 2004 08:23:48 PM
But what if randy75 still has some programs that refer to DLL files in the WINDOWS folder?
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Re: deleting win98 by on April 12th, 2004 11:48:03 PM
They won't be able to find them because they won't be looking in W98 registry, but XP's registry. He'd have to reinstall them under XP.
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Re: deleting win98 by on April 12th, 2004 11:51:32 PM
I meant W2000's registry, of course.
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Re: deleting win98 by jam14o on April 13th, 2004 01:38:09 AM
Good point. Delete that folder!
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Re: deleting win98 by on April 13th, 2004 01:15:08 PM
Delete it...
GO! GO! GO! GO! :)
I know for sure this will work...delete the folder...sure staf...
"...Don't follow a path that other have set...set a path for others to follow..."
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Re: deleting win98 by on April 13th, 2004 02:34:56 PM
I've had to delete a Windows folder in similar circumstances in the past, and even KNOWING that there's no reason it might cause any grief, still paused with my finger on the mouse button.....
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Re: deleting win98 by isaac on May 08th, 2004 02:43:32 PM
i want to create win 98 on my win 95 |
