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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: A neophyte asks: Can you get rid of Windows?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.023213.22850@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Nov19.153131.23334@ms.uky.edu> <BxztwM.9Kz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov20.82712.6469@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 02:32:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.82712.6469@ms.uky.edu> jedwards@ms.uky.edu (Jonathan Edwards) writes:
- >>>>I don't know how OS/2 runs Windows programs. I don't really care
- >>>>either. If you are not interested in Windows, can the
- >>>>emulation/whatever be removed. How much diskspace does this save?
- >>>When you install, you have the option not to install Windows support.
- >>>Presumably it can be removed after it has been installed, but I'm
- >>>not sure how to do that...
- >>Deleting the \OS2\MDOS\WINOS2 directory and subdirectories below should do
- >>the trick.
- >I don't think so. Won't there be resources (icons, etc.) in some .INI
- >or system file somewhere that simply deleting the directory won't clean
- >up?
-
- Not particularly. Shred the Win-OS/2 Full Screen program object and
- you're done. (You might want to modify your AUTOEXEC.BAT to make sure
- that the Win-OS/2 PATH is no longer listed.)
-
- You end up saving 3 or 4 MB, as I recall.
-
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