Removing the WIN32s from your system requires more than just deleting the win32s sub-directory. To completely remove WIN32s from a system, follow these guidelines:
1. Modify the following line from the [BOOT] section in the SYSTEM.INI
DRIVERS=MMSYSTEM.DLL WINMM16.DLL
to the following (remove WINMM16.DLL):
DRIVERS=MMSYSTEM.DLL
2. Remove the following line from the 386 Enhanced [386Enh] section of the SYSTEM.INI file:
device=<WINDOWS>\\<SYSTEM>\\WIN32S\\W32S.386
where <WINDOWS> and <SYSTEM> are the locations of your WINDOWS and SYSTEM directories, respectively. In a normal Windows configuration the line will read:
DEVICE=C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\WIN32S\\W32S.386
3. Exit and restart Windows.
4. Delete the following files from the <WINDOWS>\\<SYSTEM> subdirectory or from the SYSTEM directory in network installations:
W32SYS.DLL
WIN32S16.DLL
WIN32S.INI
WINMM16.DLL
5. Delete all the files in the <WINDOWS>\\<SYSTEM>\\WIN32S subdirectory or the <SYSTEM>\\WIN32S subdirectory in network installations. Then delete the WIN32S directory itself.
The above changes will take effect the next time Windows is run.
NOTE: <WINDOWS> refers to the Windows installation directory. On a networked Windows installation, the system directory may be located on a shared remote volume. If you are removing only 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 shared network, make sure that all users that use WIN32s have removed the references to WIN32s from the SYSTEM.INI file.