re: How to uninstall Gator & Gain Thursday, November 7, 2002 at 11:49 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by jason hill (9 messages posted) Hello Drew,Thanks for the reply to my thread.I certainly will (sorry im getting popups now while typing this )try your method,ive now got 2 reasonably good responses and something to work with so I am greatful.Now im getting married in 8 days so wont be ablee to respond to any more threads for 3-4 weeks,Sorry but the help ive been given is hopefully invalueable.Regards Jason. On Wednesday, November 6, 2002 at 8:33 pm, Drew wrote: >I've been able to get-rid of the Gain crap. This is pretty much what I did: > >All of these files (at least) are associated with the adware: GMT, CMII, Gain. > >RUN Regedit and go to the Software files in both HKey_Users and HKey_Local. Delete >all files that start with Gain. > >Go to C:\Program Files/Common Files\CMEII and delete all of the files that you're >allowed to delete. I had to rename some of the files and then put them into another >folder before being allowed drag to the recycle bin. Empty the bin. Do the same >for the GMT folder in the same directory. Empty the bin. > >Do a Search All Files for Gain. Choose the ones that you want and delete those too >if there are any left. > >Try to restart your computer, you may have to revert to the last known good profile >and do things in a different order. Reboot. Check your HKey_Local_Machine registry >to see if the Gator folders show-up again. If it doesn't, you've probably got it. > Good luck. > > Written in response to: re: How to uninstall Gator & Gain (Drew: Wednesday, November 6, 2002 at 8:33 pm) Responses to this message: re: How to uninstall Gator & Gain (Drew: Friday, November 8, 2002 at 1:24 am) All messages in this thread [show all] How to uninstall Gator & Gain (jason hill: Wed, Oct 2, 2002, 5:02 am) re: How to uninstall Gator & Gain (triplate: Wed, Oct 2, 2002, 5:17 am) re: How to uninstall Gator & Gain (jason hill: Wed, Oct 2, 2002, 4:01 pm) re: How to uninstall Gator & Gain (Ms. Eagle: Wed, Oct 2, 2002, 7:01 pm) re: How to uninstall Gator & Gain (Ms. Eagle: Wed, Oct 2, 2002, 7:09 pm) re: How to uninstall Gator & Gain (jason hill: Thu, Nov 7, 2002, 11:32 pm) re: How to uninstall Gator & Gain (jason hill: Thu, Nov 7, 2002, 11:19 pm) re: How to uninstall Gator & Gain (Ms. Eagle: Fri, Nov 8, 2002, 2:14 am) re: How to uninstall Gator & Gain (jason hill: Fri, Nov 8, 2002, 2:25 am) You're welcome...(n/t) (Ms. Eagle: Fri, Nov 8, 2002, 4:31 pm) re: How to uninstall Gator & Gain (urmaster!: Wed, Nov 6, 2002, 5:46 pm) re: How to uninstall Gator & Gain (jason hill: Thu, Nov 7, 2002, 11:37 pm) re: How to uninstall Gator & Gain (Drew: Wed, Nov 6, 2002, 8:33 pm) re: How to uninstall Gator & Gain (jason hill: Thu, Nov 7, 2002, 11:49 pm) re: How to uninstall Gator & Gain (Drew: Fri, Nov 8, 2002, 1:24 am) re: How to uninstall Gator & Gain (jason hill: Fri, Nov 8, 2002, 1:37 am) re: How to uninstall Gator & Gain (larry: Wed, Nov 13, 2002, 6:15 pm) re: How to uninstall Gator & Gain (jason hill: Wed, Nov 13, 2002, 6:41 pm) Worth a try (Peter DS: Sun, Nov 17, 2002, 3:58 pm) re: Worth a try (pat: Tue, Nov 19, 2002, 6:58 pm) re: Worth a try (Derrick: Thu, Nov 6, 2003, 11:33 am) re: Worth a try (uncle Vinny: Fri, Apr 23, 2004, 3:46 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum