27 June 2007

Applications that Won't Uninstall

Ever encounter a program that won't uninstall from your PC no matter how many times you try? You've used the "Uninstall" icon in the Start / All Programs list. You've used Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel. Nothing works. Maybe you get an error message during the uninstallation and it aborts. Maybe nothing happens at all.

Here is the fix:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=290301

This Windows Install Clean Up tool seems to extract even the most stubborn applications. It's not pretty, and I don't know what the consequences of this tool are on your system registry, but I haven't experienced any problems with it thus far.

2 comments:

Jialan Wang said...

Thanks for the tip! I've been having trouble with Adobe Acrobat and could not figure out how to uninstall it. It's finally working!

Anonymous said...

I used to have the same problem with you. Now i use Add/Remove 4Good to uninstall those stubborn applications. It works pretty fine for me. Hope it's also helpful for you.