uninstall windows me

I need to uninstall windows me and return to windows 98. however i didn't
not save the option to return to 98. i don' t want to format the hard drive
as i'll lose loads of preinstalled programs on my laptop. any ideas? Can i
delete the windows folder, make the computer crash and then restart with the
98 startup disk? Will this keep my preinstall programs?

Peter

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"Peter Brown" <solvino.RemoveThis@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
news:428a14d1_1@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com...
 >I need to uninstall windows me and return to windows 98. however i didn't
 > not save the option to return to 98. i don' t want to format the hard
 > drive
 > as i'll lose loads of preinstalled programs on my laptop. any ideas? Can i
 > delete the windows folder, make the computer crash and then restart with
 > the
 > 98 startup disk? Will this keep my preinstall programs?
 >
 > Peter
 >
 >
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