Re: Windows Xp Professional Files, gtting rid of them

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From: Jerry (NoSpamChiefZeke_at_MSN.com)
Date: 01/14/05 

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:38:45 -0800

Assuming everything you want to use is now part of the legal Home
installation and there is nothing still in the illegal Pro installation what
you do is boot into Home, open Explorer and delete all the Pro installation
files and folders. You then edit the boot.ini file in the root of the C:\
drive to eliminate the reference to Pro.

"scacco73" <scacco73@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0833B1B4-7FF9-4B0C-89AA-2F8C04C880F2@microsoft.com...
>I had an illegal copy of XP Professional when I got this computer. I now
> have a legal copy of XP Home, which I have installed. Now, when I start
> up
> my computer, it asks me which operating system i want to use. The choices
> being XP home or XP Pro. The default is XP Home, which I want. My
> question
> is, since it is still asking me this, are there XP Pro files on my
> computer
> using up memory that I do not need, or want, anymore? If so, how do I get
> rid
> of them? Thanks

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