b. determine the window folder you want to keep by doing the fooling steps:click on "start" click"run"type %windir%,then click on "ok"this may show up like this"c:\windows" or any other name on your machine.
c. do not delete the working windows folder.
d. go to the windows explorer by going to"start" click on "run"and typing"explorer"to find the windows you want remove.
e. right-click on the windows folder you want to delet, then click the "delete" make sure that this is not your working window before you delete it
f. click"yes"to confirm the deletion of the second windows operating system .
g. go to "start"choose "my computer"and click right it. then choose"properties"go to the "advanced"tab under"startup and recovery"click "setting"this will open the dialog box titled "startup and recovery."
h. go to the "system startup"then click "edit"to modify the boot.in file with a name "boot.old" close this backup copy by clicking on the "file" menu then click "exit".
i. save a backup copy of the boot.ini file before proceeding. to do this click "save as" on the "file" menu in notepad. to avoid any confusion, save the boot.ini file with a name "boot.old" close this backup copy by clicking on the "file" menu, then click "exit"
j. re-open the boot.ini file by repeating step(i). identify and then delete the line of the text for the windows operating system that you want to remove the boot loader. if the second windows folder you have identified in step 4 is the microsoft windows xp home edition operating system, remove the following line of text from the boot.ini file: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows.0="microsoft windows xp home"/fastdetect
k. save your changes to the boot.ini file by clicking on the "file" menu, then "save"then close the boot.ini notepad by clicking on "exit"or the "x" box in upper right corner of the notepad. click on "ok"to close the "startup and recovery" dialog box.
l. restart your computer. this time, you will only have one operating system at startup.
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