I have 2 hardrives, both with windows xp installed
I want to get rid of windows in one of the hardrives, can i do this by just deleting all the files that are related to windows? i.e winnt folder, documents n settings etc...?
I bought a new computer with a new hard drive and had the technician transfer files from my old hardrive over to the new one. Now I have my old Windows folder from before on there now and I wan to get rid of it. Problem is, it won't let me delete some of the files.
It says that the files are in use, but that is not so because it's an old Windows directory. How do I delete files like DLL's which don't want to be deleted and aren't being used?
I am having problems deleting some Windows Temp Files. There are three that absolutely will not delete even when I cold boot or using the search feature and trying to delete them that way. ( sometimes that has worked for me in the past).
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The three files are Jet8B96.tmp, Jet9829.tmp and ZLT04e0c.tmp.
Can anyone tell me how to get rid of them? I am comfortable with using DOS if necessary. And oh yes, ran Ad-Aware, and AVG and cleaned out registry as well.
I am having issues with my pc and I was wondering if it is okay to delete the windows prefetch files.
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Step # 1.Go to this site and download Microsofts uninstaller and run it and if the program you want to get rid of is on the list select it and remove from your computer.
Step # 2. Click on start , click on run, type regedit, and when it opens click on HKey local machine, Software, Microsoft, Windows, Current Version, click on the plus sign for uninstall and it opens all the programs installed on your computer , scroll and see if the program you want to get rid of is on the listif it is right click on it and delete it.
Step # 3. Click on start, click on run, type msconfig, and when it opens click on BOOT.INI and check the box that says, SAFE MODE. Boot the computer to safe mode and when it opens click on DRIVE C and click on program files and click on the folder of the program you want to delete from your computer and delete it. Then click on the common files folder and see if it is in there and if it is delete it. Important now, go back to click on start, click on run, type msconfig, and when it opens click on BOOT.INI and uncheck the box that says, SAFE MODE or you will boot to safe mode again.Once I remembered doing all the above steps and it still started up so I ran hijackthis and deleted the entries and it was gone for good.
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