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| whiskers |
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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| igottaknow |
| easy just reinstall windoze. :eek: |
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| whiskers |
| quote: | Originally posted by igottaknow
easy just reinstall windoze. :eek: |
yeh, that's what i thought... i should, i've got a load of old and possibly unnecessary files lying around... but at the same time i have a load of stuff installed... heh |
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| Warez Guy |
| If you're running XP do a system restore to they day before then try installing again. |
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| MarvinTheRobot |
| lol, who uses system restore? It takes around 800Mb, and some processor time. Just reinstall, and keep backups of EVERYTHING! |
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| SuperFarStucker |
| quote: | 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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| CynepMeH |
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 .
Later. |
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| Arbiter |
| Heh, my system restore somehow turned itself on once, and I didn't notice until it was taking up 15 gigs. |
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