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re: Question about 'Uninstalling Windows' Tuesday, November 20, 2001 at 10:30 pm Posted by Derek (30 messages posted) I think the Windows.000 is the backup of your Win98 just in case you decide to uninstall (that's what it was on my laptop I upgraded from 98). You can go ahead and delete that folder if you feel so inclined. :) Now, there are two ways to change your startup options so that it doesn't ask you if you want to run Windows XP or 98. The "hide it" way, and the "get rid of it" way. :) Hide It Way: Start, Control Panel, System, Advanced tab, under Startup and Recovery Click Settings. Where it says "Time to Display List of Operating Systems" you can change that time to 0 or 1, or whatever choice in seconds you want. This will make that list appear and disappear quickly. Get Rid of it Way: Get back to the Startup and Recovery Settings. Click on Edit. under [Operating Systems] Remove the line of code that starts "multi(0)disk(0)....and finishes with something that says "Windows 98". (like this: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Windows.000="Windows 98"/fastdetect) That will remove the option to start up Windows 98. Save the file, close, restart...*voila* There you go. Any questions? Don't hesitate to ask! On Tuesday, November 20, 2001 at 7:39 pm, Biagio Bisignano wrote: >I have a question about Uninstalling >Windows: > >I upgraded to Win XP home edition from Win 98. Now I have 2 Windows Directories >on my C drive. (My other partition, D, contains my data files). > >"Windows" directory: about 900 MB, and > >"Windows.000" about 249 MB. > >Now that I decided to keep Win XP how do I go about deleting (safely) the old Win98 >directory and free up the hard drive? > >So that I avoid the question of wanting to boot Win 98 or Win XP everytime I start >the computer. > >I could not find anything to this effect on the Microsoft tech site. > >Can anybody help? > >Please? > >Thanks in advance, > > > >Biagio Bisignano, > >Winnipeg, Canada > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Uninstalling Windows' Friday, November 23, 2001 at 4:20 pm Posted by Mark (333 messages posted) On Tuesday, November 20, 2001 at 7:39 pm, Biagio Bisignano wrote: >I have a question about Uninstalling >Windows: > >I upgraded to Win XP home edition from Win 98. Now I have 2 Windows Directories >on my C drive. (My other partition, D, contains my data files). > >"Windows" directory: about 900 MB, and > >"Windows.000" about 249 MB. > >Now that I decided to keep Win XP how do I go about deleting (safely) the old Win98 >directory and free up the hard drive? > >So that I avoid the question of wanting to boot Win 98 or Win XP everytime I start >the computer. > >I could not find anything to this effect on the Microsoft tech site. > >Can anybody help? > >Please? > >Thanks in advance, > > > >Biagio Bisignano, > >Winnipeg, Canada I have an answer for you, but I don't have the knowledge off the top of my head - I'd need to reboot etc and write down stuff etc. E-mail me at: aires69uk@yahoo.com and I'll reply with the full details. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Uninstalling Windows' Monday, January 28, 2002 at 2:47 am Posted by nic (2 messages posted) How about getting rid of 2000 of the same startup menu. The deal is i had 98 installed 2000 on another hard drive, hence got the option to boot either. then formated the first drive and when i went to put windows me and 2000 on got a boot menu that looked a little like this Windows 2000 Windows 2000 Pro Windows Me Windows 98 any help on how to get rid of this would be great On Tuesday, November 20, 2001 at 10:30 pm, Derek wrote: >I think the Windows.000 is the backup of your Win98 just in case you decide to uninstall >(that's what it was on my laptop I upgraded from 98). You can go ahead and delete >that folder if you feel so inclined. :) > >Now, there are two ways to change your startup options so that it doesn't ask you >if you want to run Windows XP or 98. The "hide it" way, and the "get rid of it" >way. :) > >Hide It Way: >Start, Control Panel, System, Advanced tab, under Startup and Recovery Click Settings. > Where it says "Time to Display List of Operating Systems" you can change that time >to 0 or 1, or whatever choice in seconds you want. This will make that list appear >and disappear quickly. > >Get Rid of it Way: >Get back to the Startup and Recovery Settings. Click on Edit. under [Operating >Systems] Remove the line of code that starts "multi(0)disk(0)....and finishes with >something that says "Windows 98". (like this: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Windows.000="Windows >98"/fastdetect) That will remove the option to start up Windows 98. Save the file, >close, restart...*voila* > >There you go. Any questions? Don't hesitate to ask! > > > >On Tuesday, November 20, 2001 at 7:39 pm, Biagio Bisignano wrote: >I have a question about Uninstalling >Windows: > >I upgraded to Win XP home edition from Win 98. Now I have 2 Windows Directories >on my C drive. (My other partition, D, contains my data files). > >"Windows" directory: about 900 MB, and > >"Windows.000" about 249 MB. > >Now that I decided to keep Win XP how do I go about deleting (safely) the old Win98 >directory and free up the hard drive? > >So that I avoid the question of wanting to boot Win 98 or Win XP everytime I start >the computer. > >I could not find anything to this effect on the Microsoft tech site. > >Can anybody help? > >Please? > >Thanks in advance, > > > >Biagio Bisignano, > >Winnipeg, Canada > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum