Uninstall Classic

Is there any way to uninstall Classic (OS9.2) without having to archive and install or erase and install ?
Thanks for any information.
Irene

Thanks for replying to my post, Duane and Sherman.
I tried what you both said and found that it is impossible to trash the System Folder without first trashing its contents and restarting, as you pointed out Sherman.
I succeeded in uninstalling everything, but forgot to uncheck “Start Classic when you login” in the Classic pref pane. This meant that every time I restarted I got the message, OS9 is not installed, so you can’t use Classic. Finally figured out what was going on.
My original intention was to do a clean install of OS9 after uninstalling it. I was having various problems with Classic applications which I couldn’t resolve. However, this has not worked out very well.
When I tried to reinstall it from Install disk2, I got the message that there was nothing to install. I assumed this meant that there was something on my HD which said that OS9 was already installed. I trashed the CPUMacOS9Z.pkg in Receipts and was able to install again.
But all is not well. OS9 seems to be corrupted in various ways. Many Extensions have wrong icons and are listed as “Color Sync Document Extension”. Extension Manager keeps telling me it needs to update info, although I haven’t changed anything. This results in having the same extension in both enabled and disabled folders at the same time.
I was able to fix the “kind “ problem and some icons by resetting launch services, but after using Classic applications everything reverts back. My original problem, not being able to download attachments with ClarisEmailer, has not been resolved, even with a clean install of CE.
So I think I’m going to have to do an archive and install after all. What I tried to do, a clean install of OS9, seems not to have worked and I wouldn’t recommend this to anybody.
Thanks again for your help to uninstall Classic.
Irene

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