If you've uninstalled via add/remove and bits get left behind (often happens, few software uninstallers clean up properly), you can delete them manually. In any case those bits don't do any harm as they'll not be called upon; they just are a bit of clutter.
If you are comfortable with using regedit, you can also clean up the registry. Again, redundant entries in the registry do no harm. Click start, run, type regedit, click OK. Use edit menu find to search for any keys or values that relate to the now redundant folders and files and delete them (press F3 to resume search after each item found). Or use a program like RegscrubXP to find them for you and let it delete those items for you (bad practice to let any regcleaner just 'fix' everything it finds, use your judgement to select only the items your'e sure relate to that uninstalled software).
UntouchableJ
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September 1st, 2004 01:00
*bump*
Anyone please?
-J
UntouchableJ
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September 8th, 2004 07:00
*BUMP*
Can somebody just help me with this and I'll stop posting?
JRosenfeld
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September 8th, 2004 13:00
If you've uninstalled via add/remove and bits get left behind (often happens, few software uninstallers clean up properly), you can delete them manually. In any case those bits don't do any harm as they'll not be called upon; they just are a bit of clutter.
If you are comfortable with using regedit, you can also clean up the registry. Again, redundant entries in the registry do no harm. Click start, run, type regedit, click OK. Use edit menu find to search for any keys or values that relate to the now redundant folders and files and delete them (press F3 to resume search after each item found). Or use a program like RegscrubXP to find them for you and let it delete those items for you (bad practice to let any regcleaner just 'fix' everything it finds, use your judgement to select only the items your'e sure relate to that uninstalled software).
You can download regscrubXP from
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=2048
Message Edited by JRosenfeld on 09-08-2004 03:24 PM