Restoring win95 after upgrade to win98

Here's the official Microsoft word on uninstalling Windows 98:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q186/1/02.asp

This only works if you upgraded from Windows 95 and during the installation of Windows 98 you chose to save uninstallinformation. There are other restrictions as well.

If it was me, I would reformat and reinstall from scratch.

If you selected the option to save your old operating system files when you ran the upgrade then you should be in good shape. You can go to the add/remove programs section in control panel and you should have an option to remove Windows 98. This should restore the system to Windows 95. If you did not select this option - the scenario is not very promising. You cannot load 95 back on top of 98. You are likely looking to format your system and do a from scratch install of 95 in this scenario... Hopefully you saved your old system files during the upgrade...

As long as the user saved the old OS files during the upgrade there is hope of salvaging all other data on the system. However, if this is not the case then the only feasible method is a complete fresh install. But before I do either I would go to Windows Update and install the latest patches for Win98 as well as find the latest drivers for my other devices now that I have upgraded to a new OS.

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