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DELETE THE WINDOWS UNINSTALL FILES

If your hard drive is getting smaller and smaller (it seems) and you're looking for some large files to get rid of, in order to gain more space, one possibility is the Windows Uninstall files, which allow you to go back to your previous version of Windows (assuming you upgraded over a previous version.) Doing this means you cannot go back to your previous Windows version, Windows 95, without reformatting your hard drive and then re-installing from your old CD or floppy diskettes. If you're ready to do this, here's how: click the Start button, click on Settings, then Control Panel, click the icon for Add/Remove Programs, click the tab for Install/Uninstall. Scroll the list of programs installed on your computer until you find "Old Windows/MS-DOS System files". Click on that, and then on the Remove button.