Cannot uninstall MS Silverlight

[Renny Bosch]

My system was acting a bit erratic so I looked for programs I don't need and
Removed MS Silverlight, without any problem.

The system didn't get better so I did a System Restore to an earlier point.
It now seems much stabler. Of course Silverlight is now still installed.
But when I now try to remove it, I get the message "This patch package could
not be opened. Verify that the patch package exists and that you can access
it, or contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows
Installer patch package." So somehow the System Restore didn't quite
overcome the effect of the Remove that preceded it.

There is still a Silverlight folder in the Program Files folder. Can I just
delete that folder, including its contents? Or is that likely to damage
something else?

Windows XP, SP3.

 

[Ron Badour]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301

Check out this page and see if it helps
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Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP
Windows Desktop Experience

 

[Renny Bosch]

Thanks Ron. That was a bit scary, because the MS website starts out with
Warning! Do not use on Office etc. Well I do use Office, but finally
concluded that I could cautiously proceed a little further and recheck at
each stage that I wasn't doing anything dangerous. Then it warned me that I
might have to reinstall some or all of my programs that had previously been
installed. But I held my breath and clicked MS SIlverlight REMOVE.

Everything seems to be OK. There still was a Silverlight folder in the
Programs folder but all it contained were eight different language folders
(not including English) with some DLL's in them so I felt safe in deleting
them.