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re: How to uninstall XP OR 2000
Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kiwi
(2096 messages posted)
When that dialog box is on screen, there is an option to contact Microsoft more directly,
with an 800 number to call. Making that call is the next step. If your son has
erased his install of XP in favor of a new OS, such as Vista (or made the mistake
of running Vista as an upgrade atop his old XP install, considered a bad idea), and
then given you the OS, you may need to provide Microsoft with the Activation number
he uses now for Vista, or some such.
Windows does not have an Uninstall for itself. In order to get rid of XP, you must
manually delete its traces, and that gets very tricky, so the usual remedy is to
use the Win2000 CD to boot up, and reformat the Hard Drive completely to start over.
There is a "Repair" option that comes with Win2000's CD Install setup, that may
work for you, but if you are this lost already, you would probably need a tutorial
for using it, and I'm not aware right now of any good one.
But Google or Yahoo can search out such a web site for you.
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Kiwi
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On Friday, February 15, 2008 at 9:53 am, rick wrote:
>thanks kiwi and dex for responding to my cry for help! When my son installed xp
he
>didn't finish I guess and everyday for a month when the computer came on a message
>would flash saying I had so many days to activate xp, it was working fine. Then
I
>put the activation #'s in, 4 sets of 4 #'s that were on the back of the book that
>came with the disk. Then a message flashed saying that these #'s have been used
too
>many times and it locked me out. I re-entered the #'s 2 more times with the same
>result. I've noticed now that xp has boogered up some of 2000 and I can't re-install
>my printer. Your help is greatly appreciated!
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