Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Tips and Tricks on How to Remove a Program

This post explains How to Remove a Program from your computer that you currently installed using Add or Remove Programs tool. Just follow these easy steps on How To Remove a Program:

1. click on the start bottom located on the lower left of your screen.
2. Click Control Panel. It will open a control panel window.
3. Double click Add or Remove Program. It is a tool used to install/uninstall or remove programs and windows component.
4. choose what program or software you want to remove or uninstall then click Remove.
5. Always perform remove all of its settings and configuration. It will remove all of its components from your computer even in registry.

Not all software can be removed directly using Add or Remove Programs tool. On that instances, you need to manually remove the program from currently installed programs. Follow these steps on How to Remove a Program by editing the registry carefully:
Note: You may encounter some serious problems if you incorrectly modify the registry.

1. Click on Start.
2. Click run and type regedt32 in the open box and click OK.
3. In Registry Editor, locate the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
4. In the left pane, click the Uninstall registry key, and then click Export on the File menu.
5. In the Export Registry File dialog box that appears, click Desktop in the Save in list, type uninstall in the File name box, and then click Save.
6. Each key listed under Uninstall in the left pane of Registry Editor represents a program that is displayed in the Currently installed programs list of the Add or Remove Programs tool. To determine which program that each key represents, click the key, and then view the following values in the details pane on the right:
DisplayName: The value data for the DisplayName key is the name that is listed in Add or Remove Programs.
UninstallString: The value data for the UninstallString key is the program that is used to uninstall the program.
7. After you identify the registry key that represents the program that you removed but which is still displayed in the Currently installed programs list of Add or Remove Programs, right-click the key in the left pane of the Registry Editor window, and then click Delete.
Click Yes in response to the "Are you sure you want to delete this key and all of its subkeys?" message.
8. On the File menu, click Exit to quit Registry Editor.
9. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Add or Remove Programs.

In the Currently installed programs list, verify that the program whose registry key you deleted is no longer listed.
10. Do one of the following:

    * If the program list is not correct in Add or Remove Programs, double-click the Uninstall.reg file that you saved to your desktop in step 5 to restore the original list of programs in the registry.

    * If the program list is correct in Add or Remove Programs, right-click the Uninstall.reg file on your desktop, and then click Delete.