How To Uninstall An Application That Has No Uninstall Program ?
Posted on September 12th, 2008
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*If you want to uninstall an application that has no uninstall program and it is not listed in the Add/Remove applet of Control Panel (or that uninstall doesn't work), then just delete the directory/files.
Start Regedit and drill down to :
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \Software \]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \SharedDLLs]Rename...
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- Make a backup of the registry
- Shutdown the application, if it is running (If WinNT+ check also for services)
- Search the registry for any references to the directory where the application resides, and remove them
- Search the registry for any references to the name of the application, and remove them
Start Regedit and drill down to :
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \Software \]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \SharedDLLs]Rename...
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