An uninstalling question from a novice...

[jdj983]

I recently bought a new PC with an AMD Athlon 64-bit processor without
any operating software. I also, I'm ashamed to say, bought a cracked
copy of windows XP pro 64-bit off of the internet. The last laugh was
on me however as, unsurprisingly, the activation code failed and I
decided to invest in a legitimate copy of windows XP Pro. This time I
bought a 32-bit edition as I was having some compatibility problems
with 64 (macromedia, realplayer, etc.), I'll probably buy the 64 bit
update when it comes out at the end of the year.

Anyways, I obviously now want to uninstall the cracked 64-bit edition
and install the legitimate 32-bit copy. How?

I've made copies of everything I want to keep and because it's a
completely new computer, there is really nothing I'm bothered about
losing.

In windows help it talks about uninstalling from the add/remove program
but when I go into it, XP is not listed.

Any help would be greatfully received. I'm useless with computers so
please be gentle.

Thanks,

J

 

[Malke]

I recently bought a new PC with an AMD Athlon 64-bit processor without
any operating software. I also, I'm ashamed to say, bought a cracked
copy of windows XP pro 64-bit off of the internet. The last laugh was
on me however as, unsurprisingly, the activation code failed and I
decided to invest in a legitimate copy of windows XP Pro. This time I
bought a 32-bit edition as I was having some compatibility problems
with 64 (macromedia, realplayer, etc.), I'll probably buy the 64 bit
update when it comes out at the end of the year.

Anyways, I obviously now want to uninstall the cracked 64-bit edition
and install the legitimate 32-bit copy. How?

I've made copies of everything I want to keep and because it's a
completely new computer, there is really nothing I'm bothered about
losing.

In windows help it talks about uninstalling from the add/remove
program but when I go into it, XP is not listed.

You need to do a clean install. Boot with the XP Pro cd and go into
Setup. Delete the current system partition, create a new one, format
NTFS, and install Windows on it.

http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

Malke

 

[Donald McDaniel]

I recently bought a new PC with an AMD Athlon 64-bit processor without
any operating software. I also, I'm ashamed to say, bought a cracked
copy of windows XP pro 64-bit off of the internet. The last laugh was
on me however as, unsurprisingly, the activation code failed and I
decided to invest in a legitimate copy of windows XP Pro. This time I
bought a 32-bit edition as I was having some compatibility problems
with 64 (macromedia, realplayer, etc.), I'll probably buy the 64 bit
update when it comes out at the end of the year.

Anyways, I obviously now want to uninstall the cracked 64-bit edition
and install the legitimate 32-bit copy. How?

I've made copies of everything I want to keep and because it's a
completely new computer, there is really nothing I'm bothered about
losing.

In windows help it talks about uninstalling from the add/remove program
but when I go into it, XP is not listed.

Any help would be greatfully received. I'm useless with computers so
please be gentle.

Thanks,

J

More properly, install the RETAIL copy of Windows XP.
XP has no uninstall feature unless you UPGRADED from a previous
version of Windows.

In your case you will have to do a CLEAN install of XP 32-bit, since
XP 64-bit must be installed CLEAN.

Donald L McDaniel
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[Guest]

I am really confused trying to uninstall a game have gone to add remove it
won't let me have got rid of shortcut also on the start up but can't get rid
of it on add remove any help