Uninstall Program Suggestions, Please ?

[Robert11]

Hello:

Might someone please suggest (some) good Uninstall programs that are either
free, or reasonably inexpensive,
that I can download and try. Using W98.

Would have to be reasonably easy to use and straightforward, as I'm not too
sharp with this stuff.
I don't want to have to do anything manually with the Registry, which I
really know nothing about.

Am trying to unistall a particular program that came with a new Canon
photoprinter's CD.

Have tried the program's uninstall file, and also the Control Panel
Uninstall,but neither works on the particu;lar
piece of software I want to remeove as the uninstall file for the program is
apparently corrupted.

I have to remove the present software version, before it is possible to
re-install a new updated version.

Thanks,
B.

 

[Jim Byrd]

Hi Robert - You might try re-installing the older version on top of itself,
and then see if it will uninstall.

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[Robert11]

Hi,

Thanks for help; appreciate it.

Tried that, won't work.

Spoke to the vendor, and apparently the old vers has to be removed first.
Problem is, the uninstaller for it they included is corrupted.

Looked at a zillion freeware uninstallers on the web, tried many, but they
ALL seem to(just) pull up the program's included uninstaller; the corrupted
one.
So, of course, no luck still.

Any suggestions or thoughts ?

Thanks,
Bob
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[Michael Forsythe]

Hi,

Thanks for help; appreciate it.

Tried that, won't work.

Spoke to the vendor, and apparently the old vers has to be removed first.
Problem is, the uninstaller for it they included is corrupted.

Looked at a zillion freeware uninstallers on the web, tried many, but they
ALL seem to(just) pull up the program's included uninstaller; the corrupted
one.
So, of course, no luck still.

Any suggestions or thoughts ?

/snip/
You could get RegSeeker at
http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm
Use RegSeeker search for registry entries with "Canon" and the specific
name of the software, and delete them all (RegSeeker will automatically
make backups. Then delete any folders the program may have created,
reboot, and you should be rid of it.

 

[MLC]

sabato 12/giu/2004 _Michael Forsythe_ ha scritto:

You could get RegSeeker at
http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm
Use RegSeeker search for registry entries with "Canon" and the specific
name of the software, and delete them all (RegSeeker will automatically
make backups. Then delete any folders the program may have created,
reboot, and you should be rid of it.

I was to suggest the same program
However I'd follow the inverse way: first delete the folders and files of
the application, then run the clean registry tool of RegSeeker to find and
delete the orphan and invalid entries in the registry.

 

[Jim Byrd]

OK Robert - Michael's approach would be worth a try. You might couple that
with mine, also. That is - remove anything you can as he suggested, then
try a re-install/un-install to get rid of any residual stuff that RegSeeker
(or whatever you use) might not have found (assuming the new re-install
delivers a "good" uninstaller - If not then you'll need to repeat the
Registry search/removal process). For future reference before you install
your new "Target" version, you might want to investigate TotalUninstall,
here: http://www.geocities.com/ggmartau/tu.html
or direct dwnld here: http://files.webattack.com/localdl834/tun234.zip

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[Robert11]

Hi,

First, much thanks, all.
Really appreciate the help.

Downloaded and played with RegSeeker
Wow!

Have this built in fear about doing anything with the Registry, I guess.
Have so many poblems with the "normal" stuff, the registry scares the heck
out of me. Really know nothing about it. Probably should learn avbout it,
but never have.

May I please ask:

Is all I really have to do is just delete "anything" that the regseeker
comes up with from a search of the name of the program I'm trying to get rid
of ?
Is it as simple as that ? (it found about 60 entries !)

Also: is there a consensus of which I do first:
-dump all the folders of the program and then do the
registry clean, or vice versa ? (there seemed to be a bit of disagreement
on which comes first)
Which is best ? Does it matter ?

Thanks again,
Bob

 

[Semolina Pilchard]

Hi,

First, much thanks, all.
Really appreciate the help.

Downloaded and played with RegSeeker
Wow!

Have this built in fear about doing anything with the Registry, I guess.
Have so many poblems with the "normal" stuff, the registry scares the heck
out of me. Really know nothing about it. Probably should learn avbout it,
but never have.

May I please ask:

Is all I really have to do is just delete "anything" that the regseeker
comes up with from a search of the name of the program I'm trying to get rid
of ?
Is it as simple as that ? (it found about 60 entries !)

I'm not Jim, but I would say yes, providing your search term doesn't
apply to any other program, like, f'rinstance, where you want to get
rid of Adobe Acrobat Reader and you also have Adobe Photoshop
installed, but the search term you used was "Adobe".

Have a look through them. See if they make sense; the explanation's
quite good. Mostly, the path tells you. Also, you might run the
"Clean the registry" function. If you haven't run it before, it'll
bring up hordes of entries. They're marked red or green. The green
ones are supposedly safe to delete, the red ones should be checked.
Over numerous uses for 6 months or so, I've found Regseeker's choices
to be reliable.

Also: is there a consensus of which I do first:
-dump all the folders of the program and then do the
registry clean, or vice versa ? (there seemed to be a bit of disagreement
on which comes first)
Which is best ? Does it matter ?

If you want a belt and braces solution, delete the folders, reboot,
run Regseeker.

 

[Jim Byrd]

Hi Bob - Well, let me say this about that. A qualified Yes if you observe
the restrictions that Semolina specified. Here's my 2 cents on Registry
cleaners:

In my experience all of these Reg cleaners, even the best, are fraught with
danger. I advise against using them except in one specific instance, that
is when you have one that is capable of doing specific Reg searches, and you
NEED (not just WANT) to remove the remaining traces of something that didn't
get uninstalled correctly (which does apply in your case, Bob ). (and
you didn't have foresight enough to install it using Total Uninstall,
http://www.geocities.com/ggmartau/tu.html or direct dwnld here:
http://files.webattack.com/localdl834/tun234.zip, in the first place.)

Lastly, if you must screw around with your Registry, then at least get
Erunt/Erdnt, and run it before you do the Reg clean. You'll then have a
true restore available to you. Read below to see why you might not just
using the Reg cleaner's restore:

Get Erunt here for all NT-based computers including XP:
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/index.htm I've set it up to
take a scheduled backup each night at 12:01AM on a weekly round-robin basis,
and a Monthly on the 1st of each month. See here for how to set that up:
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/erunt.txt, and for some
useful information about this subject.

This program is one of the best things around - saved my butt on many
occasions, and will also run very nicely from a DOS prompt (in case you've
done something that won't let you boot any more and need to revert to a
previous Registry) IF you're FAT32 OR have a DOS startup disk with NTFS
write drivers in an NTFS system. (There is also a way using the Recovery
Console to get back to being "bootable" even without separate DOS write NTFS
drivers, after which you can do a "normal" Erdnt restore.) (BTW, it also
includes a Registry defragger program). Free, and very, very highly
recommended.

FYI, quoting from the above document:

"Note: The "Export registry" function in Regedit is USELESS (!) to make a
complete backup of the registry. Neither does it export the whole registry
(for example, no information from the "SECURITY" hive is saved), nor can the
exported file be used later to replace the current registry with the old
one. Instead, if you re-import the file, it is
merged with the current registry, leaving you with an absolute mess of old
and new registry keys.

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[Semolina Pilchard]

Lastly, if you must screw around with your Registry, then at least get
Erunt/Erdnt, and run it before you do the Reg clean.

I heartily concur. That's excellent advice.

 

[Bob Adkins]

May I please ask:

Is all I really have to do is just delete "anything" that the regseeker
comes up with from a search of the name of the program I'm trying to get rid
of ?
Is it as simple as that ? (it found about 60 entries !)

I've been bitten by RegSeeker before. Had to re-install MS Office suite. I
take my share of the responsibility for that. I well knew not to remove any
MS Office registry entries.

Note that anything RegSeeker does can be un-done. Run it often and you won't
get tired of reading what it wants to remove and get bitten like I did.

Bob

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