I wrote that down in a letter once and it came back an bit me. I'll never use it again, that's for sure.

Rather than strip the Windows 7 you might give a thought of adding XP in a partition so you can boot the computer either way. I don't know much about PC's but on the Mac I can start it up either XP or OS as it's essentially two computers on one hard drive. A PC should have the same features.