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as our aim is to shift the booting to winNT.

aashish

>Dear Ed Rauh
>I think u have mistaken what i meant,
>By uninstalling softwares, i meant all the software which is dependent on Win95 as our aim is to shift the booting to win95 and that also through uninstalling through control panel ,add remove program.
>(in no way i gave an idea to remove application directory)
>When the dual booting is controlled by win NT, U can uninstall win95 through win95 setup which i feel no doubt the best method.This method automatically transfer the complete control to winNT and hence the dual booting problem can be solved.
>
>I think we are looking to the same problem with different angles.
>Your way can solve the problem, but still i feel uninstallation is better than removing/deliting win95 directory.
>
>By the way what is PITA (No idea).
>pls feedback.
>Aashish
>
>
>>>Well friend, u have the same setup as i have,
>>>try out running win95 setup and then uninstall all the components.
>>>but before this uninstall all the software u loaded in win95.
>>>i hope this should and should work.
>>>
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>>(1) There's no need to uninstall anything, since the registries are not shared between NT and 95. Simply removing the Win95 directories are sufficient, since there's no file dependency. It's a bad idea to remove all the application directories, since if any of the apps are installed under both NT and 95, removing the common directories will affect the NT registry.
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>>It's necessary to remove the BOOT.INI reference to the Win95 boot record to make the boot manager menu not show Win95 - the reference remains even if Win95 does not, since it isn't controlled by the Win95 install.
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>>If dual boot is not managed by NT, there's a significantly more complex procedure involved, since it's necessary to load the NT boot sector and loader and create the correct BOOT.INI entries for NT's boot manager if they aren't there. Doing this involves a partial run of the WinNT installer, at least to restore the NT boot and loader files once Win95 is removed; it's not a big problem, but it is moderatley involved and a bit of a PITA. The boot sector written by NT has significantly different behavior than the boot sectors used by DOS and/or Win95 (and Win98's is different from both of these as well.)
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>>BTW, I don't have 95 installed anywhere here in any case; I do have one system set up with both Win98 and NT, using NT's loader to control the boot process. The process I described above, removing the BOOT.INI entry and the Win95 directories does work when NT controls the boot process.
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>>>try out
>>>aashish
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>>>>>Hello All,
>>>>>Does anyone know how to uninstall Windows 95 from a dual boot NT/W95 setup leaving NT intact, I basically have Windows 95 and NT 4 loaded onto the same hard disk and would like to remove 95 leaving NT operational ( also removing the dual boot menu )
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>>>>If NT is providing the boot management, simply delete the Win95 directories, and edit BOOT.INI to not reference the Win95 boot. If some other boot manager is being used (ie you're hosting dual boot NT from the WIn95 boot manager, not something I thought was doable, or in any case desirable) you're on your own.