I have a question about Get Rid of the Recycle Bin:

How do I UNinstall TweakUI from a WIN98 machine? Using Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs only removed it from the list! The icon is still in Control Panel and it still works!

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Make sure it is not in use. If you have it starting on boot you have to stop it. 
You should then put everything back to the default settings that you activated with 
tweakui. Then you should be able to uninstall it. If it is no longer listed in the 
Add\Remove directory I don't know if it can be uninstalled. But you could try to 
reinstall it and them do an uninstall. 
Why may I ask are you wanting to uninstall it? It doesn't do any harm and if you 
don't start it on boot I doubt it  uses  many resources.
  








On Wednesday, May 26, 2004 at 6:30 am, Raymond Jerome wrote:

>I have a question about Get 

>Rid of the Recycle Bin:


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>How do I UNinstall TweakUI from a WIN98 machine?  Using Control Panel - Add/Remove 

>Programs only removed it from the list!  The icon is still in Control Panel and 
it 

>still works!

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My guess is that he wanted to remove his recycle bin, and installed TweakUI as a way to do it, and now he feels he doesn't need TweakUi anymore.

On Wednesday, May 26, 2004 at 8:56 am, phantom wrote:
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>Make sure it is not in use. If you have it starting on boot you have to stop it.
>You should then put everything back to the default settings that you activated with
>tweakui. Then you should be able to uninstall it. If it is no longer listed in the
>Add\Remove directory I don't know if it can be uninstalled. But you could try to
>reinstall it and them do an uninstall.
>Why may I ask are you wanting to uninstall it? It doesn't do any harm and if you
>don't start it on boot I doubt it uses many resources.
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Try these things: (1) Go to Start/Run and type msconfig. Click on the startup tab. Look to see if TweakUI is listed there. If it is, uncheck it and then reboot. (2) Then go to the control panel again and see if TweakUI is still there. If it is, try to uninstall it again. (3) If it isn't there, do a search using Find for this file: "Tweakui.hlp". Double click the help file to open it, then click the "Index" tab. Type in Add/remove. There are directions there on how to remove Tweakui. There is a question there "Do you see an entry for "TweakUI"? (in add/remove) and under it are two choices. If it isn't showing up in add/remove choose the "No, "Tweak UI" is not listed as a program that can be uninstalled." This modifes the registry to put TweakUi back in the add/remove list.
If this works for you, can you repost under this thread to let others know? Thanks....

On Wednesday, May 26, 2004 at 6:30 am, Raymond Jerome wrote:
>I have a question about Get
>Rid of the Recycle Bin:

>
>How do I UNinstall TweakUI from a WIN98 machine? Using Control Panel - Add/Remove
>Programs only removed it from the list! The icon is still in Control Panel and it
>still works!
>

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I wonder why any reasonable person would want to remove the recycle bin?
  








On Wednesday, May 26, 2004 at 9:35 am, Carl S. wrote:

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>My guess is that he wanted to remove his recycle bin, and installed TweakUI as a 

>way to do it, and now he feels he doesn't need TweakUi anymore. 

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Understand two things:-

Removing TweakUI will NOT undo anything you've changed with it.

If you remove it you will have great difficulty undoing anything you've changed with it.

Paul D

All the changes I had used Tweak UI to make were reset to 'normal' before removing Tweak UI. I was having trouble getting Tweak UI to uninstall. Here's what worked: After a bit of digging in Regedit I deleted Tweak UI from this key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run I Rebooted then used Control Panel - Add or Remove Programs to uninstall Tweak UI. Thanks to all who responded! Case closed!


On Wednesday, May 26, 2004 at 8:46 pm, Paul D wrote:
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>Understand two things:-

Removing TweakUI will NOT undo anything you've
>changed with it.

If you remove it you will have great difficulty undoing anything
>you've changed with it.
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>color=#3366FF>Paul D

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