I'm having a problem with removing a program. It was some stupid adware
program. Apparently I deleted the program itself not going through the
add/remove program list. Now its still listed on the programs installed and
i cant remove it, windows tells me "the system cannot find the file
specified. How do I manually remove this from the listing. I have done
this before but I cant remember how its done and had no luck finding
anything in the knowledge base on micrsofts website. Any help would be
appreciated.

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> I'm having a problem with removing a program. It was some stupid
> adware program. Apparently I deleted the program itself not going
> through the add/remove program list. Now its still listed on the
> programs installed and i cant remove it, windows tells me "the system
> cannot find the file specified. How do I manually remove this from
> the listing. I have done this before but I cant remember how its
> done and had no luck finding anything in the knowledge base on
> micrsofts website. Any help would be appreciated.

Reinstall it then immediately uninstall it properly.

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its in the registry, I can't remember the actual entry but someone else
may help you out. in the meantime, search for the program/company name
in the registry and you should find it

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> I'm having a problem with removing a program. It was some stupid adware
> program. Apparently I deleted the program itself not going through the
> add/remove program list. Now its still listed on the programs installed and
> i cant remove it, windows tells me "the system cannot find the file
> specified. How do I manually remove this from the listing. I have done
> this before but I cant remember how its done and had no luck finding
> anything in the knowledge base on micrsofts website. Any help would be
> appreciated.
>
>
>
>

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(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> I'm having a problem with removing a program. It was some stupid adware
> program. Apparently I deleted the program itself not going through the
> add/remove program list. Now its still listed on the programs installed and
> i cant remove it, windows tells me "the system cannot find the file
> specified. How do I manually remove this from the listing. I have done
> this before but I cant remember how its done and had no luck finding
> anything in the knowledge base on micrsofts website. Any help would be
> appreciated.

Normally if you attempt to use Add/Remove Programs to remove a program
that has been deleted, the applet will tell you that it can't find the
appropriate file and ask if you want to delete the A/R entry. Simply
click Yes and it's gone.

If that doesn't work, open Regedit and navigate to key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall.
Below that will be a subkey referring to the application you want to
remove. Delete that subkey.

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