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How do i uninstall a program when the uninstall file is missing?
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Damn it.What's weird is that i've had this problem before, but all I had to do was delete the program manually and it was all good.
Now I keep getting this message "a previous version of this software has been found on your computer, please delete the old version and then attempt to install the new one." Or some shit like that.
It's printer software, btw.
A little help from my fellow nerds?
Alas, if only the great Über-nerd himself, the mysterious and equally perverted HappyScrappy was here.
Life would once again make sence, as would your little technical quarrel.
In order to solve this problem without him my good Taps, we must ourselves venture deep into the mind of this frivolous and disgruntled Boston honed computer programmer known as HappyScrappy. Inside we may indeed find disturbing images of a secluded cubicle life and a unhealthy obsession with the female twins that resided on the popular television show 'full house'. The answer to our problem lies beyond that my young grasshoper, to find it you must be strong willed and never once look back, or else your will inevitably be consumed by all that is HappyScrappy and never return.
Life would once again make sence, as would your little technical quarrel.
In order to solve this problem without him my good Taps, we must ourselves venture deep into the mind of this frivolous and disgruntled Boston honed computer programmer known as HappyScrappy. Inside we may indeed find disturbing images of a secluded cubicle life and a unhealthy obsession with the female twins that resided on the popular television show 'full house'. The answer to our problem lies beyond that my young grasshoper, to find it you must be strong willed and never once look back, or else your will inevitably be consumed by all that is HappyScrappy and never return.
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printer software installs drivers, those drivers are registered.
first, is there an installation directory that the partial install left (look in program files/the name of the company/printer).
If there is, try and delete it. If it tells you you cannot, reboot and then try again. if it still tells you you cannot, then we need to do a little hacking.
as for the registry, a simple way to find all of the associated registry keys is to do a find on the name of the program, and delete every key therein. might be tricky with printer software. take a look, be cautious, but not too cautious, it is not as easy to fuck up your pc as the techies will tell you.
Also, lets try and find the files it installed. go to your "search" tab and look for files that have been written to your hard drive very recently that have a ".dll" extension. see if they look like they would be from the printer software. if they do, we can unregister those dlls and delete them manually, and then try to reinstall.
first, is there an installation directory that the partial install left (look in program files/the name of the company/printer).
If there is, try and delete it. If it tells you you cannot, reboot and then try again. if it still tells you you cannot, then we need to do a little hacking.
as for the registry, a simple way to find all of the associated registry keys is to do a find on the name of the program, and delete every key therein. might be tricky with printer software. take a look, be cautious, but not too cautious, it is not as easy to fuck up your pc as the techies will tell you.
Also, lets try and find the files it installed. go to your "search" tab and look for files that have been written to your hard drive very recently that have a ".dll" extension. see if they look like they would be from the printer software. if they do, we can unregister those dlls and delete them manually, and then try to reinstall.
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