If the various microsoft updates and hotfixes have installed successfully and have not had any adverse effects on the computer operations, is it safe to delete all of the uninstallers from the windows directory?
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View 4 Replies View RelatedWe are using a LapTop with XP Home installed and SP2. I have been doing my best to clean a friends pc and speed things up. To date things have been going well and improvements have been noticeably made with the help of reading through several forums, sites and through my own experience. However, the issue I have at the moment is with several programs (which were pre-installed along with XP by the store who sold this Laptop) and in that there are NO uninstallers present. Not in Add/Remove, not in the Start-programs listing or in their respective folders. So, how does one remove these programs!? Some of these programs which I have seen at some sites as being recommended to have removed are `Sonic Update manager`, Sonic Record Now` and `Smart Hobby` etc. note: These programs and several others are not needed by the user of this pc.
I am under the impression that the only way to remove these programs is by deleting their respective folders and all traces within C drive and other drives (if utilised) and then editing the registry. Editng the registry is fine, though not all programs could be found there. Due to perhaps using different names in the reg as compared to their files in the folders. Also some reg files may be used with other software made by the same company but this I do not know. It becomes even more difficult as this pc is in another language in which I am not fluent. At all. I have seen snippets of information through this site surrounding my issue although nothing directly answered. Perhaps someone has an answer now that may help me solve this which would be great news.
I noticed that when you use either the Control Panel Add/Remove Programs or an uninstaller to remove software lots of bits get left behind. For example, if you RUN SERVICE.MCR you will find files in the Registry. Also, IE7 browser add-ons. Some of these items can't be deleted - only disabled. I have run into problems with all this "regsam" before - from start-up to shut-down problems. Registry Cleaners don't detect and delete them either.
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Getting the same message:
Error Name:
szAppName : mshta.exe szAppVer : 6.0.2900.2180 szModName : hungapp
szModVer : 0.0.0.0 offset : 00000000
C:DOCUME~1OwnerLOCALS~1TempWER19c4.dir00mshta.exe.mdmp
C:DOCUME~1OwnerLOCALS~1TempWER19c4.dir00appcompat.txt
Can't find a way to delete the virtual memory pagefile for Windows XP. I've turning off page filing and turning it back on, and now it's eating up like 20 gb of my drive space.
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I've been deleting files from the Media Center in XP Media Edition and every time I click delete a pop up box asks me if I'm sure I want to delete. Is there any way to set the computer to just delete what I ask without the pop up box popping up? I realize this is just a security deal, so you don't accidentally delete a file you need, but its annoying, and with system restore working, unnecessary.
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