How To Remove Win32s

SUMMARY

1. Remove the following line from the [386Enh] section in the System.ini file:

   device=<WINDOWS>\<SYSTEM>\win32s\w32s.386
   						

   where <WINDOWS> and <SYSTEM> are where the Windows and System directories are, respectively.
2. Modify the following line from the [BOOT] section in the System.ini file

   drivers=mmsystem.dll winmm16.dll
   						

   to the following (remove Winmm16.dll):

   drivers=mmsystem.dll
   					

3. Delete the following files from the <WINDOWS>\<SYSTEM> subdirectory or from the SYSTEM directory in network installations:

         WINMM16.DLL
         W32SYS.DLL
         WIN32S16.DLL
         WIN32S.INI
         WINHLP32.EXE
         WINDOWS.HLP
         WINHLP32.HLP
         WINHLP32.CNT
   					

4. Delete all the files in the <WINDOWS>\<SYSTEM>\WIN32S subdirectory or the <SYSTEM>\WIN32S subdirectory in network installations. Then delete subdirectory itself.
5. Restart Windows.
   
   NOTE: It may not be possible to delete W32SYS.DLL while Windows is running. This occurs if you ran some Win32 application. It is recommended that you remove Win32s while in MS-DOS, not from an MS-DOS box.
   
   NOTE: <WINDOWS> refers to the windows installation directory. On a networked Windows installation, the system directory may be located on a remote share. If you are only removing Win32s from your machine, then you do not need to remove the shared files (in <SYSTEM> and <SYSTEM>\WIN32S). Before removing these files from the network share, make sure that all users that use Win32s have removed the references to Win32s from the SYSTEM.INI file.