Add/Remove Programs

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Jim Varner

I downloaded a program and now want to remove it from my system.

In Control Panel/Add or Remove Programs Window, the program does not appear.

It's there....I can see it in DOS.....and could just delete the directory
(it's in C:\Program Files), but I'd like to know why it does not show on the
file list.

Anyone?

Thanks.
 
After you downloaded it, did you install it?
It doesn't show up on the add/remove program until you do.
 
Jim Varner said:
I downloaded a program and now want to remove it from my system.

In Control Panel/Add or Remove Programs Window, the program does not
appear.

It's there....I can see it in DOS.....and could just delete the directory
(it's in C:\Program Files), but I'd like to know why it does not show on
the file list.

Anyone?

Thanks.
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poorly written installer ...check first to see if it has its own uninstall
program (in program files > folder)
 
Jim said:
I downloaded a program and now want to remove it from my system.

In Control Panel/Add or Remove Programs Window, the program does not
appear.
It's there....I can see it in DOS.....and could just delete the
directory (it's in C:\Program Files), but I'd like to know why it
does not show on the file list.
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An installed program will appear in Add/Remove Programs *only* if it comes
with an uninstall program, and its installation program puts a link to that
uninstall program in Add/Remove Programs. Although most programs do both of
these things (and all of them *should*), there are certainly some that do
not. Yours is apparently one of them.
 
Jim Varner said:
I downloaded a program and now want to remove it from my system.

In Control Panel/Add or Remove Programs Window, the program does not appear.

It's there....I can see it in DOS.....and could just delete the directory
(it's in C:\Program Files), but I'd like to know why it does not show on the
file list.
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The Add/Remove list isn't magic. A program's install routine is
supposed to make an entry in that list which includes the program's
name and the address of its uninstall routine. When you select a
program in the list and click "Remove" the program's own uninstaller
is called.

So if there was no install routine for the program (which is true of a
lot of simpler shareware and freeware programs) there will be no entry
in the Add/Remove list. If the install routine didn't make an entry,
then there will be nothing in the Add/Remove list. If there's nothing
there, then check the program's directory for an uninstaller
(unwise.exe, maybe?) If you can't find one, then about the only thing
you can do is delete the directory.
 
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