Computer Taken Over - Add Remove - Uninstall Desktop
Jan 12, 2006
My sister's laptop, (Windows XP) is freezing up and having a lot of trouble accessing the internet. She thinks it's from an e-mail that she downloaded a screen saver from. It has to do with a web page called freeze.com, 3D Dolphins screen saver, desktop weather and a couple of other things that all downloaded at the same time.She has to go to Control, Alt, Delete to try to get the laptop to shut down and then has to click on "End Now" several times. I will attach a picture of the list.Also, when she goes to "Add & Remove", it won't let her uninstall the desktop weather and another one called When U Save.
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Dec 17, 2005
I been trying to uninstall mcafee because i just got Norton because i heard is better and it is interfiring w/ norton and mcafee don't have a uninstall nor is in ADD/REMOVE.
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Jul 30, 2007
Like the title says, when I run Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel, some of the apps have a Change/Remove button, but some (including some I really want to uninstall) have no such button. It just has a date and says how often I use the app.
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Apr 9, 2008
I currently have XP SP3 V.3300 installed on my computer. My audio driver seems to be having problems with SP3 for some reason (*which I found from a bit of searching around on the internet). Consequently, I have been trying to uninstall it to re-install SP2, but I cant find the file to uninstall under add/remove.
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Sep 25, 2005
When you uninstall, or in the add/remove program delete, do all the items of the program uninstall. Especially the drivers, I am having a small problem on the computer and I know its due to an unapproved windows driver installed by accident for my sandisk reader. How can you find out the drivers installed on your computer?
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Feb 2, 2008
Im trying to make my computer faster. its so slow. Im trying to delete some programs I dont need. Do I need "bigfix" Im not sure what it even is though Also I wanted to delete this program I downloaded called Colorcoded... it takes up 20.18mb.. but when i go to add or remove programs it says-":\programfilescodedcolorunins000.dat does not exist. Cannot uninstall.? And should i delete microsoft money. it takes up 130.00mb.. and ive never used it?
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Feb 20, 2009
I tried to install Windows XP Home on my new hard drive. When I tried to install it, it hangs at 39 minutes and gives me the error:An error has been encountered that prevents Setup from continuing.Setup failed to install the product catalogs. This is a fatal error. The setup log files should contain more information. I kind of left it alone for a while and since then want to install Windows XP Pro. I tried to insert the Pro cd, but it wouldn't continue installation since it prepared installation from the Home cd. I've created boot disks with fdisk and format in order to just wipe the drives. However, the computer will not open the disk. I hear that it reads it but then doesn't load anything. I've used this same kind of disk for another PC and it works fine. I know the floppy drive on this pc works because when I tried to install Raid drivers previously, it read it.
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Apr 5, 2005
I wanted to uninstall a program that did not come up on windows add/remove program. I d/l a prog. to uninstall it. The prog. also had a registry cleaner/optimizer which I used. Had to reboot. when it restarted, I got a blue screen of death. pushed the on button and rebooted. Got the blue screen again. tried to repair with my re-install disk, no luck. the error message is � file is either missing or corrupt: /windows/system32/config/system
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Dec 16, 2007
I clicked on the add/remove program and I tried to uninstall the adobe suite 3 but it 's stuck. How do I remove it?
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Jun 5, 2006
Am Running Windows XP home with SP2 on a P4 machine,everything running smoothly except that I tried to uninstall a program through the control panel-add/remove route and even though most programs are listed there, only a few of them like 5 out of 40 odd have the change/remove button when the particular program name is clicked. It just shows size, used frequency and last used on, I cannot uninstall those programs incl. the officeXP package. I am absolutely sure all this was possible few days back and tried to get my system back to a 7-8 day restore point but this does not help as well
In registry key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUninstall "
only 5-6 programs are listed and the change/remove button only shows up for these. Where did the rest go?..as all these other programs are running on my computer. What could be the problem and how can I resolve it without re-formatting
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Oct 17, 2009
windows xp accidentally set an item as a desktop item on my computer how can I remove it?
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Jan 24, 2007
About a week ago I lost several desktop shortcuts. Then today while cleaning the hard drive I tried to uninstall some programs from the Control Panel and the screen frozen on compiling list of programs. I have rebooted and tried several times and have let it sit for awhile....there seems to be NO Programs in the ADD/REMOVE window. What happened. I can do everything else fine.... PC works no problem.
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Sep 13, 2009
im using the winnt32.exe to reinstall windows xp file and it pops up with the error that it cant run it because there is a newer os installed on it
so i uninstalled xp sp3 and i looked to see what version i had then and found out it is sp2 so i then tried to uninstall sp2 but i cant find anything in the add remove box to uninstall it its blank
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Oct 14, 2008
I am trying to remove an icon that says "install_flash_player", but every time I try, it says "Cannot delete install_flash_player: It is being used by another person or Program. Close any programs that may be using the file and try again."
I've tried shutting down the pc, but that didn't work. I've closed all programs when trying to delete it but it won't go. I then tried opening my task manager to view processes, but am unsure as to which process to end.
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Feb 21, 2010
I applied eo Dell for credit to order items. When I received my reply, an icon appeared on my desktop that was titled credit decision. How do I delete it?
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Apr 3, 2005
My question is why is it when I save a photo in my pictures that is shows up in my desktop images? Start-Control panel-App and themes-Display-click desktop tab.All the images on my computer show up in this box.Why does it do this as I have a bunch in there and would like to remove many of them or stop them from collecting there.
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Oct 9, 2004
1.Click on "Start", then "Run.." and type "regedit".2.Navigate to the registry key: <br>"HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop".3.Once there, locate the DWORD value "PaintDesktopVersion".4.Right click on it and select Modify."0" removes Windows version from desktop."1" adds Windows version to desktop.Reboot.
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Dec 5, 2007
when i try to install or uninstall anything on my computer it just closes or terminates it self. if i open it and try it again it just does the same thing
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Aug 1, 2007
I have quick books installed that we aren't even using. Dave wants me to remove it because it taking up 840.00 MB. When I go to remove programs it says "this action is only valid for products that are currently installed" and it won't let me do anything else.
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Mar 31, 2010
My computer was turned off during an uninstall and now it will not boot. Is there something I can do?
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Feb 18, 2007
we had to remove Visual Studio 2005...when uninstalling VS it tells you to unistall portions in order...we did that and now nothing is listed in Add/Remove Programs relating to VS at all...however, in the start menu there is MS SQL Server 2005 configuration tools...when you reboot windows xp you get an error saying SQL Server could not start...well, we don't want SQL Server 2005 on there and are trying to remove it but it is not listed in Add/Remove at all...can't find anything relating to this at all.how do we remove SQL Server 2005 configuration tools?
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May 23, 2010
I am experiencing a strange problem when attempting to uninstall programs from Control Panel --> Add / Remove programs. When I attempt to uninstall a program, the corresponding programs "uninstaller", asks for a network resource. Here is an example screen shot of what I am seeing when I attempt to uninstall Ad Aware: It doesn't seem to matter what I am attempting to uninstall. In all of the uninstall scenarios that I have seen Add / Remove programs asks for an MSI file with a similar name to the program that I am attempting to uninstall.
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Feb 27, 2007
I tried Customize Desktop under Display Settings for Desktop, the box next to Administrative Tools is not checked, but when I reboot, the icon is still there.
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May 8, 2005
I saved an image on my desktop and now I can't get rid of it. It covers about 8/10th of my screen, the rest is my wallpaper, which is fine. Can anybody help me. I use XP Home, IE6 sp2, OE6. I checked Properties on my wallpaper and it does not appear there.I have right clicked on everything and nothing seems to help.
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Dec 29, 2006
Computer runs very slow on start up.
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Feb 8, 2010
How do I remove underline from the writing to desktop icons please
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Aug 12, 2002
Here is an very easy way to remove the build number from your desktop.Â
Just follow the directions below to remove it.Â
Right click on the desktop
Expand arrange icons by
Click on lock items to desktop
The build number will be gone. However, you will loose the transparent
text background but most of us can live with that.
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Aug 2, 2005
A first with the wallpaper. a have installed one that i can not remove. I've tried to find it in the add/remove but is not there also looked in the properties, nothing
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Jan 31, 2006
I have a P4 2.4 Ghz with XP SP2 instaled. Three days ago I was instaling a download tool and was inefcted by major spyware infection.I downloaded MSoft antyspyware tool and cleaned the PC.Still I have this desktop image with blue background and black rectangle in midle screaming SPYWARE INFECTION :Your sistem is infected with spyware. Windows recommends that you use anyspyware removal tool to prevent loss.
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Aug 12, 2002
Ever want to remove the shortcut arrow over your icons? Read below to find out how:1. Open regedit, if you are unfamilar with regedit visit our FAQ2. Navigate to Rename IsShortcut to AriochIsShortcut4.
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Jun 3, 2005
its On My Sons Pc. I Have Tried Going Through The Display Settings But Some Of Them Have Been Disabled (possibly By This) So I Cant Do It.
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