dell desktop question

[gracika]

OK;MANY THANKS ;SO I GUESS,FROM WHAT YOU SAID,THERE IS NOTHING ELSE TO LOOK FOR AND DELETE...

[hot dog]

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 

[BC_Programmer]

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.

[gracika]

thnk you for all the help!we are good to go now!

HAPPY WEEKEND AND THANKS GUYS FOR HELPING!

[hot dog]

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   

[gracika]

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?

[BC_Programmer]

I have it installed right now- no problems.