diff --git a/src/msw/choice.cpp b/src/msw/choice.cpp
index 14a10703bc..cf5b4e6ef0 100644
--- a/src/msw/choice.cpp
+++ b/src/msw/choice.cpp
@@ -531,73 +531,6 @@ void wxChoice::DoSetSize(int x, int y,
     // the original size for reporting back to the app.
     if (m_pendingSize != wxDefaultSize)
         m_pendingSize = wxSize(width, heightOrig);
-
-    // This solution works on XP, but causes choice/combobox lists to be
-    // too short on W2K and earlier.
-#if 0
-    int widthCurrent, heightCurrent;
-    DoGetSize(&widthCurrent, &heightCurrent);
-
-    // the height which we must pass to Windows should be the total height of
-    // the control including the drop down list while the height given to us
-    // is, of course, just the height of the permanently visible part of it
-    if ( height != wxDefaultCoord && height != heightCurrent )
-    {
-        // don't make the drop down list too tall, arbitrarily limit it to 40
-        // items max and also don't leave it empty
-        unsigned int nItems = GetCount();
-        if ( !nItems )
-            nItems = 9;
-        else if ( nItems > 24 )
-            nItems = 24;
-
-        // add space for the drop down list
-        const int hItem = SendMessage(GetHwnd(), CB_GETITEMHEIGHT, 0, 0);
-        height += hItem*(nItems + 1);
-    }
-    else // keep the same height as now
-    {
-        // normally wxWindow::DoSetSize() checks if we set the same size as the
-        // window already has and does nothing in this case, but for us the
-        // check fails as the size we pass to it includes the dropdown while
-        // the size returned by our GetSize() does not, so test if the size
-        // didn't really change ourselves here
-        if ( width == wxDefaultCoord || width == widthCurrent )
-        {
-            // size doesn't change, what about position?
-            int xCurrent, yCurrent;
-            DoGetPosition(&xCurrent, &yCurrent);
-            const bool defMeansUnchanged = !(sizeFlags & wxSIZE_ALLOW_MINUS_ONE);
-            if ( ((x == wxDefaultCoord && defMeansUnchanged) || x == xCurrent)
-                    &&
-                 ((y == wxDefaultCoord && defMeansUnchanged) || y == yCurrent) )
-            {
-                // nothing changes, nothing to do
-                return;
-            }
-        }
-
-        // We cannot pass wxDefaultCoord as height to wxControl. wxControl uses
-        // wxGetWindowRect() to determine the current height of the combobox,
-        // and then again sets the combobox's height to that value. Unfortunately,
-        // wxGetWindowRect doesn't include the dropdown list's height (at least
-        // on Win2K), so this would result in a combobox with dropdown height of
-        // 1 pixel. We have to determine the default height ourselves and call
-        // wxControl with that value instead.
-        //
-        // Also notice that sometimes CB_GETDROPPEDCONTROLRECT seems to return
-        // wildly incorrect values (~32000) which looks like a bug in it, just
-        // ignore them in this case
-        RECT r;
-        if ( ::SendMessage(GetHwnd(), CB_GETDROPPEDCONTROLRECT, 0, (LPARAM) &r)
-                    && r.bottom < 30000 )
-        {
-            height = heightCurrent + r.bottom - r.top;
-        }
-    }
-
-    wxControl::DoSetSize(x, y, width, height, sizeFlags);
-#endif
 }
 
 wxSize wxChoice::DoGetBestSize() const