Solve : dell desktop question?

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Answer» OK;MANY THANKS ;SO I GUESS,FROM WHAT YOU SAID,THERE IS NOTHING ELSE TO LOOK FOR AND DELETE... Quote from: BC_Programmer on June 20, 2009, 06:43:31 PM it's fairly simple what happened. The first OS on the PC was windows 95,98,98SE or ME. windows 2000 was then installed- which placed itself, by default, in C:\WINNT, leaving the old install in C:\WINDOWS. Windows XP was installed, and that overwrote the first windows install in C:\windows, however the XP setup program, not knowing any better, kept the boot.ini entry that windows 2000 had made for it. the end. that seems accurate.. @gracika........don't worry about the other Operating System, there's nothing you can do about it Happy Computing not necessarily- I was simply cutting off blockhead's POSSIBLE wild-goose chase Folders you might not need: "Dell" (what's inside this?) "Inetpub" Do you run a web server? IF not- delete this. "pra" Not sure what this is. Progra~1 : probably a old relic from when windows 95/98 was the main OS. What's inside here? Any programs you use? you can probably delete this safely.thnk you for all the help!we are good to go now! HAPPY WEEKEND AND THANKS GUYS FOR HELPING!At this point, it probably wouldn't hurt to run a system defrag. And a "disk clean Up" START>All programs>Accessories>system tools> disk defrag./disk clean up And to be sure there are no nasties on the system, download install, UPDATE and run a full scan with Malwarebytes......"Spybot Search and Destroy" is a good one too, just DON'T install the "tea timer", if you are GOING to try Spybot edit: an uh, thanks for the bail-out, BC ok;will do;thanks again;one more question:is it true that windows xp service pack 3 is not good?I got it in here as an update,SHALL I get rid of it?I have it installed right now- no problems.

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OK;MANY THANKS ;SO I GUESS,FROM WHAT YOU SAID,THERE IS NOTHING ELSE TO LOOK FOR AND DELETE... Quote from: BC_Programmer on June 20, 2009, 06:43:31 PM

it's fairly simple what happened.

The first OS on the PC was windows 95,98,98SE or ME.

windows 2000 was then installed- which placed itself, by default, in C:\WINNT, leaving the old install in C:\WINDOWS.

Windows XP was installed, and that overwrote the first windows install in C:\windows, however the XP setup program, not knowing any better, kept the boot.ini entry that windows 2000 had made for it.

the end.

that seems accurate..

@gracika........don't worry about the other Operating System, there's nothing you can do about it

Happy Computing not necessarily- I was simply cutting off blockhead's POSSIBLE wild-goose chase

Folders you might not need:

"Dell" (what's inside this?)
"Inetpub" Do you run a web server? IF not- delete this.
"pra" Not sure what this is.
Progra~1 : probably a old relic from when windows 95/98 was the main OS. What's inside here? Any programs you use? you can probably delete this safely.thnk you for all the help!we are good to go now!

HAPPY WEEKEND AND THANKS GUYS FOR HELPING!At this point, it probably wouldn't hurt to run a system defrag. And a "disk clean Up"

START>All programs>Accessories>system tools> disk defrag./disk clean up

And to be sure there are no nasties on the system, download install, UPDATE and run a full scan with Malwarebytes......"Spybot Search and Destroy" is a good one too, just DON'T install the "tea timer", if you are GOING to try Spybot

edit: an uh, thanks for the bail-out, BC ok;will do;thanks again;one more question:is it true that windows xp service pack 3 is not good?I got it in here as an update,SHALL I get rid of it?I have it installed right now- no problems.

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