How to Uninstall junk programs

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My pc came with factory installed programs (AOL,vonage,MSN) that I wan
to get rid of.
None appear in the add/remove list, or have uninstall files.
How do I uninstall these? Just going through and deleting all the file
that show after a search
isn't the way to do it. Suggestions?
(I have XP Home edition on an HP desktop
 
2bitwise said:
My pc came with factory installed programs (AOL,vonage,MSN) that I want
to get rid of.
None appear in the add/remove list, or have uninstall files.
How do I uninstall these? Just going through and deleting all the files
that show after a search
isn't the way to do it. Suggestions?
(I have XP Home edition on an HP desktop)
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You should be able to remove these from the uninstall
(add/remove) page. Be sure to check with the company that
the software was installed from (vonage, aol, etc) - these
could be a limited time trial, and you would need to stop
the trial account with these before removing them.
 
Thanks for the links. I checked them out and will study abit before
deciding what I will do.
 
2bitwise said:
My pc came with factory installed programs (AOL,vonage,MSN) that I
want to get rid of.
None appear in the add/remove list, or have uninstall files.
How do I uninstall these? Just going through and deleting all the
files that show after a search
isn't the way to do it. Suggestions?
(I have XP Home edition on an HP desktop)
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Are you sure they are actually installed? Some computers come with shortcuts
on the desktop to install these services if you want to use them. If that's
the case, and you never clicked on them, they may not be installed, and all
you may have to do is delete the target the shortcut points to and the
shortcut itself.
 
2bitwise wrote:
Are you sure they are actually installed? Some computers come with
shortcuts
on the desktop to install these services if you want to use them. If
that's
the case, and you never clicked on them, they may not be installed, and
all
you may have to do is delete the target the shortcut points to and the

shortcut itself.
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I did a search on the hard drive under the program name and got a long
list, not counting all the hidden stuff in the registry. I looked for
uninstall files in all the folders, but no luck.
 
2bitwise said:
I did a search on the hard drive under the program name and got a long
list, not counting all the hidden stuff in the registry.
Click to expand...


Then it would seem that you are probably right that they are installed, and
my guess was wrong.
 
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