As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 6, 1998 Registration No. 333-20751 ========================================================================== SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 ------------------------ POST EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO FORM S-3 REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 --------------------- VANSTAR CORPORATION (Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter) Delaware 94-2376431 (State or other jurisdiction (I.R.S. Employer of incorporation or organization) Identification No.) 1100 Abernathy Road Building 500, Suite 1200 Atlanta, Georgia 30328 (770) 522-4700 (Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of Registrant's principal executive offices) H. CHRISTOPHER COVINGTON, ESQ. Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary Vanstar Corporation 1100 Abernathy Road, Building 500, Suite 1200 Atlanta, Georgia 30328 (770) 522-4700 Copy to: STANLEY R. HULLER, ESQ. Arter & Hadden LLP 1717 Main Street, Suite 4100 Dallas, Texas 75201-4605 (214) 761-2100 (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service) ------------------------ Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: N/A ------------------------- If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box. [ ] If the registrant elects to deliver its latest annual report to security holders, or a complete and legible facsimile thereof, pursuant to Item 11(a)(1) of this Form, check the following box. 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[ ] =========================================================================== DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES =========================================================================== Title of Each Class of | Amount Initially | Amount Being Securities to be Deregistered | Registered | Deregistered - --------------------------------|-----------------------|------------------ Common Stock, $.001 par value | 1,132,491 | 47,625 =========================================================================== =========================================================================== DEREGISTRATION OF SHARES On January 30, 1997, Vanstar Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a Registration Statement (Reg. No. 333-20751) on Form S-1 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, covering the following shares of the Company's common stock, par value $.001 per share (the "Shares"), being offered from time to time on behalf of and for the account of certain stockholders of the Company: (1) up to 952,491 Shares issued to or for the benefit of the shareholders of Contract Data Services, Inc. ("CDS"), and (2) up to 180,000 Shares issued for the benefit of DCT Systems, Inc., Niloy, Inc. and NCT Systems, Inc. Such Registration Statement, as amended by Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 on Form S-3 filed on September 18, 1997, was declared effective on October 22, 1997. In accordance with the undertakings of the Company set forth in Part II of the Registration Statement, the Company hereby deregisters the 47,625 Shares that have been returned to the Company upon the closing of the escrow established in connection with the acquisition of CDS. SIGNATURES Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), the Registrant has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Atlanta, State of Georgia, on January 6, 1998. VANSTAR CORPORATION By: /s/ William Y. Tauscher ------------------------------ William Y. Tauscher Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated: Signatures Title Date ---------- ----- ---- /s/ William Y. Tauscher Chairman of the Board, January 6, 1998 - ------------------------ Chief Executive Officer William Y. Tauscher and Director /s/ Kauko Aronaho Senior Vice President January 6, 1998 - ------------------------ and Chief Financial Kauko Aronaho Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) /s/ Jay S. Amato* President, Chief January 6, 1998 - ------------------------ Operating Officer and Jay S. Amato Director /s/ John W. Amerman* Director January 6, 1998 - ------------------------ John W. Amerman /s/ Richard H. Bard* Director January 6, 1998 - ------------------------ Richard H. Bard /s/ Stephen W. Fillo* Director January 6, 1998 - ------------------------ Stephen W. Fillo /s/ Stewart K.P. Gross* Director January 6, 1998 - ------------------------ Stewart K. P. Gross /s/ William H. Janeway* Director January 6, 1998 - ------------------------ William H. Janeway /s/ John R. Oltman* Director January 6, 1998 - ------------------------ John R. Oltman /s/ John L. Vogelstein* Director January 6, 1998 - ------------------------ John L. Vogelstein /s/ Josh S. Weston* Director January 6, 1998 - ------------------------ Josh S. Weston *By: /s/ H. Christopher Covington ------------------------------- H. Christopher Covington Attorney-in-Fact and Agent