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The wife accidently put a Windows XP cd in the other evening, when I told her to reinstall XP OFFICE. Now whenever she boots, the blue setup screen appears, and she has to F3 to quit, reboot and choose XP professional over setup. Does anyone know I can get rid of this mess?

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by dmiles

Manually Uninstall If You Cannot Start Windows XP
Start the computer with a startup disk for either Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition, or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition.
At the Windows 98 or Windows Me Startup Menu, select Start computer with CD-ROM support.
Confirm that the Boot.cab file is present in the DriveName:\Undo folder where DriveName is the name of the drive in which you saved your back up information. To confirm that the files are present, run the following commands (press ENTER after each line):
cd\
cd undo
dir /a

If you receive an error message in response to the second command above, change to other drives on the computer (for example, drive D or drive E) and try the command again. If you locate the Undo folder on a different drive, modify the extract command in the following step with the correct drive letter.
If the Boot.cab does not exist, follow the steps in the "The Boot.cab File Does Not Exist" section in this article.
After you locate the Boot.cab file, run the following commands (press ENTER after each line):
cd\
extract c:\undo\boot.cab /e /y
copy c:\$win_nt$.~bt\txtsetup.sif
copy c:\$win_nt$.~bt\bootini.bak
attrib -r -s -h boot.ini
ren boot.ini boot.xx
copy bootini.bak boot.ini

After you run the commands, remove the startup disk, and then restart the computer. Select Cancel Windows XP Setup from the Boot menu

by admin

Thanks for the response. Can you give me just a little more help? The OS actually boots after I choose "quit setup"; however every time I boot I get the b&w screen choice of whether to run setup of not. How do I get rid of this? Is there some mechanism in the msconfig utility I can change?

by sramesh2k

Load Windows Normally.
open the file boot.ini using notepad. this file is a hidden file, probably.
remove the line which reads "Winodws XP Setup" or something.

by sramesh2k

Load Windows Normally.
open the file boot.ini using notepad. this file is a hidden file, probably.
remove the line which reads "Winodws XP Setup" or something.

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