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| Thread ID: 124677 | 2012-05-12 06:32:00 | How to uninstall progs in Program Files but not visible to Revo? | Fishb8 (484) | Press F1 |
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| 1274737 | 2012-05-12 06:32:00 | Decided to do a re-install of Toshiba laptop - Vista Business - went ok - backed up files. Decided to make lappy very program light as no need of many previous programs. However, when I look C/Program files there are still a heap of the old stuff. went to Control Panel to remove but they don't show up. Opened Revo and not thereeither. How do I removed them? |
Fishb8 (484) | ||
| 1274738 | 2012-05-12 06:44:00 | Delete the folders | stratex5 (16685) | ||
| 1274739 | 2012-05-12 06:47:00 | Yes, I thought of that - does it create registry issues? | Fishb8 (484) | ||
| 1274740 | 2012-05-12 07:26:00 | Check all the folders to see if they are empty, if they are not, cut them to another drive and wait a week and if no problems delete them or keep a backup. | stratex5 (16685) | ||
| 1274741 | 2012-05-12 08:23:00 | OMG :eek: dont simply delete folders unless you want a mess on ya hands. Chances are something will turn pear shaped real fast What sort of programs are you referring to. ? |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1274742 | 2012-05-12 18:45:00 | Photoshop CS3, System Suite, MS Office, Partition Manager, Nero....etc, etc. A whole heap of stuff I don't need. Wife just using it for web browsing and emails now. |
Fishb8 (484) | ||
| 1274743 | 2012-05-12 20:41:00 | Most software has it's own file cleanup program to get remnants after un-installing ,some recommend installing software and un-installing to catch everything (Revo) | Lawrence (2987) | ||
| 1274744 | 2012-05-12 23:42:00 | I may be on the wrong path here ... but if you reinstalled the OS did it not format the HD before re-installing ??? Just wondering because you say there is a lot of "old stuff" still on the drive which wouldn't be there if it had been formatted. Maybe you should try doing a fresh install and format the HD first. I think there's also a piece of software that's available which takes all the crapware (unwanted programmes) that Toshiba and others "bundle" with the OS discs/recovery partition ... unfortunately I can't remember the name of it ... some else may be able to help with that. Good luck and let us know how you get on ... |
SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1274745 | 2012-05-13 00:04:00 | Try ccleaner. | stratex5 (16685) | ||
| 1274746 | 2012-05-13 00:13:00 | www.pcdecrapifier.com :) | feersumendjinn (64) | ||
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