Add/Remove programs Error

[Testeng1966]

Help.

I'm trying to remove an program from the remove software
and it is giving me a missing install file,
Can someone please give me removal instructions for
manual removing a program.

Thanks

 

[George Hester]

Well it depends on what you are willing to accept. If you just want it out of add remove then search on it in the keys under here in the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall and remove the entry of course back up the key first before you delete it.

If you want it completely gone then you have a few things you must make sure of first:

1) That it is not being called at boot or other applications. If so you need to remove the call.

2) Any dlls that it may have put in the system that are not shared by Windows with any other applications you must try to unregister them first if that can be done. Say this.dll was put in by the installation, is not shared, and is self -registering. Then you do this:

Go to the location where the dll is using the command prompt. Then regsvr32 /u this.dll | OK. If that fails the dll is not self-registering. Leave it alone and move on.

3) Anything that is not self-registering and which you can move move it. That is get it out of the current loacation and also NOT in your path. If you cannot move these files of the application go back to step 1).

Once all that is done and you reboot with no errors that's that. You can safely delete the application's folder once you are sure it (the applications "stuff") is never being used again in the future by anything else.

 

[Abhijeet Nigam [MSFT]]

*Note:- Please be careful while delete stuff from Registry

Hi,
You can delete all the files which are installed by that program
they are typically located at C:\program Files



After that go to start-->run

type in regedit

then goto

Hkey_Local_Machine--->Software--->{Look for the folder which directs to
that software}

and then delete that folder

for more specific removal
in the regedit too you can search for that software . Any instance you get
delete that instance



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