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by drrob

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I am a Windows XP Professional user and need assistance to correct the following system errors.

From our original Service Request, a duel boot option was inserted in the boot stream. It offers an option for booting to either Windows XP or simplyWindows. I'd like to remove this option.

My system is schedule to run back-up each week, but this software has never run at the scheduled time. Please show me how to set-up and execute
scheduled programs.

IMPORTANT! Registry contains invalid file associations and I can not get full access to
the registry. How may the registry be repaired?

Often during execution, the PC will freeze and run out-of-memory. How can this be prevented.

PC here is a PIII,
1000 MH,
"C" Drive is a 40GB
"D" Drive is a 30 GB
RAM is 224 Meg.

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by thechas

For the dual boot issue;
Is there an option to uninstall the older version of windows in add/remove programs?
Is the older version of windows on it's own partition? If so, which drive is it on?
The above is only important if you want to recover the drive space being used by the old version of Windows.

If you just want eliminate the option for the old version of windows at boot, a simple edit of the boot.ini file will take care of it.
The boot.ini file should be in the root of your boot (C:) drive.
Just edit out the line that referes to the olde version of Windows.
See the dual boot page at www.systeminternals.com
or search Microsoft's site on the terms boot.ini and bootcfg for details and syntax on the boot.ini commands.

For the schedules program issue, I would start with the help menu.

For the registry issue, I recommend a registry repair utility such as WinDoctor from Symantec (Norton) or Fix-It from On-Track.
You must use the 2002 version of Norton, or version 4 ofFix-It for XP.

The registry repair may take care of your problem with freezes.
I have 768MB in my XP box.
Additional things to check are the programs and services that run in the background.
Shut down all background programs that you don't usedaily.

You may have other programs that are causing memory leaks.

Chas

by thechas

To the best of my knowledge, Xp or W2K cannot load without the boot.ini file.

Make sure that you have Windows explorer options set to allow you to view all files.
By default, Microsoft has hidden all "system" files from the user since Windows 95.
You have to manually enable the option to view all files.

If you are Dual-Booting without a boot.ini file, then your system must have a 3rd party boot manager installed. You need to identify the software, and the proper procedures for changingthe system config from that software.

The dual boot options cannot reside in the registry. The only other place it could be is in the old dos startup files, or you have a customized ntldr program.

Chas

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