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| Thread ID: 124309 | 2012-04-18 03:03:00 | How to safely delete left over bits of a program | ktee (5538) | Press F1 |
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| 1270721 | 2012-04-18 03:03:00 | ABBYY (fine reader sprint) was installed on my computer when I bought Epson printer. I didn’t like it and took it back. Went to use the Uninstall program provided with it but pressed Delete instead of enter :blush:. So uninstalled via control panel/ Program and features “uninstall or change a program.” However looking through Explore in various places bits titled ABBYY would still show. Someone else had a look and deleted the rest via the registry (I think). But I’ve just discovered under ProgramData still 6 folders there, 3 non folder items with only about 10kb in total. Nothing shows under uninstall or change a program. Can I just delete these items from Program Data folder. Have Vista I/ E 8 |
ktee (5538) | ||
| 1270722 | 2012-04-18 03:24:00 | Yeah pretty safe to delete. To be safe just rename or move them temporarily and give it a week or so to make sure nothing bad happens. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1270723 | 2012-04-18 03:36:00 | thanks, where is the best/safest place to move them to?? | ktee (5538) | ||
| 1270724 | 2012-04-18 03:57:00 | Anywhere really, perhaps just make a folder in my documents called "old stuff to delete" or something equally creative and shift the whole lot into there. Odds are pretty good nothing will happen. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1270725 | 2012-04-18 03:58:00 | Thanks yes I can handle that | ktee (5538) | ||
| 1270726 | 2012-04-18 09:31:00 | A good programme to use to UN-install programmes is Revo Uninstaller : www.revouninstaller.com Cheers |
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