i was installing a program (remotelyanywhere) and it quit in the middle of the process with a "fatal error"


so now if i try to install it again, it does the same thing and there's no way to uninstall it, the button is grayed out in the add/remove programs panel.


is there anything i can do besides manually searching through the registry and trying to delete any records of it?

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easy just reinstall windoze.

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Originally posted by igottaknow easy just reinstall windoze.

yeh, that's what i thought... i should, i've got a shitload of old and possibly unnecessary files lying around... but at the same time i have a shitload of stuff installed... heh

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If you're running XP do a system restore to they day before then try installing again.

lol, who uses system restore? It takes around 800Mb, and some processor time. Just reinstall, and keep backups of EVERYTHING!

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Originally posted by MarvinTheRobot lol, who uses system restore? It takes around 800Mb, and some processor time. Just reinstall, and keep backups of EVERYTHING!

Hah!.. 800mb? try more like 10% of your diskspace (IIRC ondefault). It's a good idea to limit it to about a gig and leave it on though, saves you a lot of time.

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You can try nuking the files from Program Files directory. If that doesn't work, you can also try running a reg sweeper. That's why when I build my system, I create a ghost image of the "clean" build - this way I don't have to mess around with hours of re-installs. Once done, takes about 15 minutes to bring the sytsem up to pristine condition.

Best of luck with it. BTW, Remotely anywhere is a sweet proggie, since our work is blocking sitest like e-bay - that's the only way I can get to my shit.

Later.

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Heh, my system restore somehow turned itself on once, and I didn't notice until it was taking up 15 gigs.