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You can remove Windows Messenger (the "old one"), but if you do, you will be preventing Remote Assistance, Whiteboard, Application Sharing and any other applications that utilize Messenger from working (or loading without problems). You can just disable Windows Messenger by opening it up, click Tools, Options,

How do i uninstall the old....
Now I realize that Windows XP did'nt remove Windows 98. There is still a directory on the computer with Windows 98. Can I just delete this or how can I get rid of Windows 98? Soeren . Did you do a clean install. If so then you would still have the old Win98 on your system if you install WInXP on another partition.

Phantom Recovery Console in Windows Boot Manager
To delete Windows Update files: Double click on My Computer, double click on C:\ Open the "WUTEMP" folder and delete the contents of the folder (If any files Next delete all the contents of the WUTemp folder (if it exists, if not skip this step). Next Unregister old control: Go to Start > run Type: "regsvr32

Deleting OLD OS's
One place to look and see if there are any extra "inf" files is in the c:\windows\inf\other directory. Make sure that you don't have any ohter video card ini files in that directory other than the one for your new card. Remove any old video card inf files from that directory manually if the add/remove windows thing

removing old versions of MSN Messenger
Malke ma...@invalid.invalid microsoft public windows vista general Daniel Royer wrote: I had to reinstall Vista Home premium several times on my son's laptop. Now he's stuck with three folders named "windows.old", "windows.old.000" and " windows.old.001" which I can't delete. I tried safe mode: no way.

Uninstalling Windows XP Home
Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Win98SE Uninstall Information I have an entry that says "uninstall windows 98 second edition", but when I select this, it asks if I want to uninstall W98SE, not delete this option and recover the 100 MB or so it occupies. I suspect I'm missing something. Rob.

Removing Old Operating System
The installation disk tells me that there is an older version already installed (correct) - but I must manually remove it since the Windows Installer cannot. I've tried everything (Add/Remove) - even through Command Prompt - to remove the directory - to no avail. Now I've removed parts - so now the old version

Trimming WINDOWS Folder
I have updated to Windows Live Onecare and when trying to clear out the old Windows defender program, I have removed all but one file..and nothing I can do seems to It is: windows defender mpshhook.dll It doesn't seem to be hurting anything, but my scans all show it as an error and it will not repair or delete.

Uninstall Vista w/out loosing data
Tony tbolt...@hotmail.com microsoft public windowsxp help_and_support I installed Windows XP on my old pentium Pro to see how well it runs. The problem is trying to remove Windows XP nowfrom my old machine. I tried booting up using my old DOS disks so I could format the drive in DOS but my computer hangs up

Upgraded to xp Can I uninstall ME
The selection previous windows installation(s) was checked, and again, "windows.old" is not removed. Arne "koze" wrote: Use the disk clean-up utility (Vista) and select "For all users" after starting it, this will delete the complet windows.old folder for you without any problem.

windows 98 inslal
Mike Jones mdjo...@nospam.org comp os ms-windows win95 misc just format the drive Mike.

Dual boot system...PLEASE HELP>>!
My husband has purchased a second hand computer and it has windows 95 in it. We have windows 95 software with certificate of registration that we wish to put in the computer. Can you tell us how to get rid of the old windows 95 and install our own. Also my husband wants to connect to the net and it tells him that

How do I delete this "mystery file?"
To date it been good untill now and this spy-boot thing and I share this puter with a 28-yr. old daughter, Nadine & two Grand kids, Janel 8 & Jonathan 6 with their Can u tell me if I download this new live window mail, will IB able 2 delete Windows mail from my puter? Please let me know, & again, thanks for the

new XP old XP
Save the old one only to retain a record of every app that has run, at least twice, to the date of your last Defrag. I have just found some directories on my PC and would like to know if I can safely delete them. 1) C:\window~1 ( windows update setup files) 2)C:\program~1\window~2 (program files\windowsupdate)

How can I delete windows.old ?
Alan Edwards edwa...@southcom.com.au microsoft public windows inetexplorer ie6 browser Where did you get the idea that you have to delete cookies in TIF? Try this old response form Tom Porterfield:http://groups.google.com. au/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics/b... ...Alan -- Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows

Old WIN95 files and 'DeskTop' question
The organization has about 20 licenses old Windows 98 and Windows 2000. I'm looking for a way to install the upgrade of Windows XP without having to Boot with the XP install CD and delete all old partitions. Create one new one and format it NTFS. Then start the XP install and it will ask you to provide

Disk cleanup - compress old files
Ken Blake, MVP kbl...@this.is.an.invalid.domain microsoft public windowsxp general In news:976901c3ea7e$b5704ac0$a501280a@phx.gbl, Ron <anonym...@discussions.microsoft.com> typed: Can I assume anything in the Windows/Temp directory can be safely deleted? The files look quite old and I assume You can safely delete

Desperate UPDATE ERROR CODE 0x80070643
Delete 001, rename 002 to 001 etc. then create ( again ... an empty) 003. All newest Images go in the newly created 003. Steve Thanks, Steve. And I've only installed Windows once (and this was when selling an old computer where all I did was wipe the hard drive completely then reload the OS disk,

Device Manager, no Monitors branch
Harry MacKay harr...@canada.com microsoft public win98 gen_discussion Yeah, go for the delete Windows 98 uninstall info is what you want. Bill Watkins wrote: Harry,All, Thanks for the info. I did find the desktop settings...if it had been a snake it would have bitten me. On the old WIN95 files, Add/Remove is where

Install 3 of 3 loop hang vista crash
Sandi - Microsoft MVP sandi_hardme...@mvps.org microsoft public msn discussion Mob, You do not need to remove the old version before upgrading; the new will install straight over the old. In any event, if you are talking about "Windows Messenger" then you can remove it via add/remove programs, add/remove windows