How to uninstall Vista Contacts and Calender?

Is it possible to uninstall WIndows Contacts and Calender that are built
into Vista? I am running Outlook, so I just don't need this duplicated
function slowing down my computer.

Hello Ric,

Built in, but why should not running program slow down the computer? Or can
you see it using ressources?

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Meinolf Weber
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> Is it possible to uninstall WIndows Contacts and Calender that are
> built into Vista? I am running Outlook, so I just don't need this
> duplicated function slowing down my computer.
>

"Ric" <fraybentos@tincan.ra> wrote ...
> Is it possible to uninstall WIndows Contacts and Calender that are built
> into Vista? I am running Outlook, so I just don't need this duplicated
> function slowing down my computer.

There is no supported way to remove the components. Contacts is an Explorer
shell extension. WinMail is an app, but there is not uninstaller.

However, they don't actually affect the performance of your machine, unless
they are loaded into memory. If the remain unused, the only tax is a small
amount of disk space. You can delete the icons, and then you'll probably
never run them - so, they won't affect performance.

It is kind of sad there is this duplication, with a dinky little utility
built-in to the OS which is borderline useless; and a genuinely useful app
which replicates the built-in function, without replacing it, and you pay
for. But analysing that, with reference to the DoJ and the rest, is a major
project. for now, we just need to live with it. In an ideal world, the
"pay-for" app would have built on top of the existing APIs, instead of
setting up a parallel universe. Outlook would have been an add-on, not
replacement, for Outlook Express/WinMail. But I digress ...

Some folks may reply with various unsupported hacks, to remove these
components from your system. If you wan to to tray those, go for it. But be
aware you are making your machine unsupported; and Contacts and Calendar
(and all the other crud) doesn't have much resource impact apart from disk
space, with is cents per megabyte anyway.

Hope it helps,
--
Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:48:48 +0200, "Ric" <fraybentos@tincan.ra>
wrote:

> Is it possible to uninstall WIndows Contacts and Calender that are built
> into Vista?


Not that I know of.


> I am running Outlook, so I just don't need this duplicated
> function slowing down my computer.


It doesn't slow down your computer. If you don't want to use those
functions, just don't use them.


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"Andrew McLaren" <andrew@fakeaddress.com> wrote in message
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> It is kind of sad there is this duplication, with a dinky little utility
> built-in to the OS which is borderline useless; and a genuinely useful app
> which replicates the built-in function, without replacing it, and you pay
> for.

Yes, my thoughts too. I really hate the way Vista has loads of junk in it
that you can't remove.

For the same reason, I gave up using One Care which I had on XP. One Care
just duplicated loads of Vista functionality and made the UI confusing.

Vista is a right mess - I would roll back to XP if I could.