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re: Question about 'Clear Unwanted Entries from Add/Remove Programs'
Saturday, October 2, 2004 at 4:48 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by V M J
(1 messages posted)
I downloaded some games on a trial basis. Now that I have played them and the time
on these games have expired, I want to delete them from my windows xp control panel
and cannot. Example---Installation log file C:\Program Files\PopCap Games\Alchemy
Deluxe\install.log not Example---Could not open INSTALL.LOG.file
Example----File"C:\Program Files\Blox World\unins000;dat" does not exist.
Cannot uninstall Example----Parsing failed: Unable to open file Deluxe\Install.log
Example: Parsing failed: unable to open file C:\Program Files\ PopCap Games\Bookworm
Deluxe\Install.log Example---could not load initialization file All these
are examples of messages I get when I click on the remove button in the control panel
to remove these entries. They are still in my control panel. Would like to know
what I can do to remove these items .
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
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>'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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