re: Question about 'Clear Unwanted Entries from Add/Remove Programs'
Tuesday, December 23, 2003 at 1:13 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by dov
(5 messages posted)
Was looking at your response. I have a new cd writer whose program Nero conflicts
with a "ghost" file from an uninstalled Adaptec Easy Creator program.I used a program
from PCWorld, called CleanReg3 which wa supposed to reveal any registry settings
of that file. thought i got all of it.Apparently not. I've never worked with Regedit,
and wonder if this is the time to do so. If so, what is the way to do it?
On Friday, January 25, 2002 at 9:44 am, martin wrote:
>I can see three options. Others may see more in addition:
>1. Reinstall the programme from the Internet. Then make a copy of the folders produced
>so that, should the same thing happen again, you have a backup of them. Then try
>uninstall again. You could also see if the programme has its own uninstall facility:
>look in its help section under uninstall. Otherwise do a Windows search for: unin*.lnk
>and see if one of the resulting shortcuts found relates to the programme you want
>to uninstall. If so, double click it in the search pane and you should get rid of
>that b****y monkey once and for all!
>2. If the uninstall hangs again, you can always manually delete the programme folder,
>but then yo0u ought to edit the registry or you might get further problems (run
-
>'regedit' - return) in order to remove every mention of the programme from your
PC
>- but you have to be thorough and very careful of course - AND you must make a back-up
>of the registry (file - export) first. I've obviously no idea if you know about
editing
>the registry or not - if not, I'd not recommend this method as you could delete
something
>vital! It could take an hour as well!
>3. If you have Norton Utilities or similar, set the install monitor running before
>you reinstall Bonzi - you can then use the Utilities programme to uninstall it.
>Hope this is of some use. If any of it doesn't make sense feel free to e-mail me.
>Martin
>
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