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Top Document: Win95 FAQ Part 2 of 14: Re/Un/Installation Previous Document: 2.12. Things to try before giving up Next Document: 2.14. Top ten UN-installation mistakes See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge
* 2.13.1. ...installation on top of my old Windows 3.x?
If you enabled the uninstall feature back in Setup, go to Add/Remove
Programs in Control Panel, and remove Windows 95. This will restore
your original Windows config files, your original DOS config files,
and the original partition table and boot record of the target drive.
If you didn't enable uninstall, you'll have to trash your Win95
directory using the technique below, and re-install Win 3.1 fresh.
* 2.13.2. ...installation on separate directory or drive?
There's no fancy uninstaller for this kind of installation. However,
you can just:
DELTREE C:\WIN95 (or wherever)
and that'll work. To do this, get your DOS setup disks and boot from
the first disk. Then, exit that setup program to a DOS prompt. From
here you type:
SYS C:
DELTREE C:\WIN95 (or wherever)
DELTREE C:\PROGRA~1 (The old "Program files" directory)
COPY C:\AUTOEXEC.DOS C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT
COPY C:\CONFIG.DOS C:\CONFIG.SYS
then re-boot.
You can then run Windows 3.1 File Manager, with "Show Hidden/System
Files" turned on, to hunt for other files you don't recognize.
* 2.13.3. ...a computer with DriveSpace 3 (TM) disk compression?
If you installed DriveSpace 3 from MS Plus and you chose to
uninstall Win95, you can still access DriveSpace 3 drives, as it keeps
the real mode component drvspace.bin there. DOS will recognize this
version and load it. Of course, it'll eat 100 KB of conventional
memory, so you had better back up your compressed drive and
re-partition it, to kill DriveSpace 3 completely. Otherwise, the
techniques above for removing Win95 will work just fine.
* 2.13.4. ...a server based install?
The techniques above will work for a server based install, just make
sure you get your right version of DOS and your old DOS network
drivers back when you do it. It's also a lot less to delete.
* 2.13.5. ...a diskless workstation?
You'll need to change back to your DOS boot disk or DOS virtual boot
disk, then just clean out Win95 from your home directory. If you
installed on top of a Win 3.1 diskless install, you're better off
re-installing Win 3.1 fresh.
User Contributions:Top Document: Win95 FAQ Part 2 of 14: Re/Un/Installation Previous Document: 2.12. Things to try before giving up Next Document: 2.14. Top ten UN-installation mistakes Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Part5 - Part6 - Part7 - Part8 - Part9 - Part10 - Part11 - Part12 - Part13 - Part14 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: gordonf@intouch.bc.ca
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