Cannot uninstall Windows Desktop Search

[M8RIX]

Greetings,
I am receiving frequent (50+/day) errors in my event viewer related to
Windows Desktop Search. I would like to reinstall the program to see if I
can solve the problems. Unfortunately I see no way to uninstall the program.
There is no entry in the add/remove programs and there is no uninstall.exe
for it. There is no $NtUninstallKB907371$ entry for it either, and
reinstalling over the top of the existing installation does not recreate the
uninstall routine.
After doing some research on the matter, I see that someone had some success
in recreating the uninstall data by deleting some registry entries and then
doing a reinstall, but they did not say what entries they deleted. I am
fairly comfortable with editing the registry, but I don't really want to go
poking around in there for a program with as many hooks as WDS has without
some direction.
Can anyone help me get this program repaired, or at least uninstalled?
Thanks,
Mark N.

 

[Kelly]

From a previous post:

To locate the Product code in the registry, click Start then Run and type
"Regedit" in the Open drop down box and press enter. Next browse to the
following location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSN Apps\MSN Toolbar Suite

The Product Code will be listed in the value of the PC key. For example
version 2.5.0.1082 PC registry value is
7d1dcbba-f6f5-42b4-b90b-f04ace4dfd6c.

Execute the following command line, listing the product code with in
brackets. For Version 2.5.0.1082 the command line would be as noted below.
Please note the brackets "{}" are required for this method to be successful.

Note: The /x switch causes Msiexec to uninstall the product and the /qn
switch will ensure that there is no display while uninstalling. Please see
msiexec.exe help (type msiexec /? From a command prompt) for more
information regarding command line options for Msiexec.exe.



Msiexec.exe /x {7d1dcbba-f6f5-42b4-b90b-f04ace4dfd6c} /qn


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All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP)

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