how to uninstall windows 2000 manually

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johnny

Hi,
I am running windows Xp and let my friend look after my
computer while I was away. He installed windows 2000 on
my computer. When I realized this I tried to access 2000
to see if I could uninstall.It came up with this
message"some files have been deleted please reinstall
disc to fix problem."problem being I have no 2000 disc!
This program is taking up a lot of my space... Could
somebody please tell me how to manually uninstall windows
2000? I am somewhat knowledgeable but have no idea how to
get windows 2000 off this computer of mine.Any help would
be deeply appreciated..Thanks for your help in advance
Sincerely Johnny
..
 
Hi,
I am running windows Xp and let my friend look after my
computer while I was away. He installed windows 2000 on
my computer. When I realized this I tried to access 2000
to see if I could uninstall.It came up with this
message"some files have been deleted please reinstall
disc to fix problem."problem being I have no 2000 disc!
This program is taking up a lot of my space... Could
somebody please tell me how to manually uninstall windows
2000? I am somewhat knowledgeable but have no idea how to
get windows 2000 off this computer of mine.Any help would
be deeply appreciated..Thanks for your help in advance
Sincerely Johnny
.
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In Windows XP, open a CMD.exe prompt and type:
attrib -r -s -h c:\boot.ini

Open boot.ini on notepad and remove the Windows 2000 entry, making sure that
default points to Windows XP (You can use Control Panel / System / Advanced /
Start.... to set the default.) You can also see the default timer value.

Delete the c:\Winnt folder.



Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
 
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