Add/Remove Programs, cant be remove

U2K Tha Greate$t · Post by **U2K Tha Greate$t** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 9:50 pm

lol, do anyone know of a free program that can force programs located in the add and remove section in the control panel to be remove?

Sometimes after installing games and programs, the programs dont seem to disappear and when trying to remove them, error message comes up.

snoleopard · Post by **snoleopard** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 11:47 am

I use RegCleaner when I uninstall a program, and it is uninstalled, but won't go away in the add/remove programs. It's a free download. Just google regcleaner.

Edit to add: Hope it works for you.

Bad Demographic · Post by **Bad Demographic** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 12:01 pm

What error message(s) are you getting?

Cylus Maxii · Post by **Cylus Maxii** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 12:40 pm

Some programs will remove the files but not the registry entries. If you can't get them out with RegClean mentioned above. You can always edit them directly out of the registry by hand. (If you feel skilled enough to do it).

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

I'd also remove the program entries under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE.

Disclaimer - I make no warranties of your success. If you follow the above advice, you do so at your own risk. Having said that, I've used this method successfully in the past (At my own risk, of course).

U2K Tha Greate$t · Post by **U2K Tha Greate$t** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 3:45 am

What snoleopard requested to use, worked great.

Interloper · Post by **Interloper** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 12:47 am

Hmm, which RegCleaner should I use? When I google it, it returns many different regcleaners.

snoleopard · Post by **snoleopard** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 12:24 pm

I use RegCleaner 4.3, but I haven't updated it in awhile. Any version should work as far as I know, and all the results you get from google should be for the same app, just different sites to download it from.

Giles Habibula · Post by **Giles Habibula** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 11:37 pm

...and as always, backup your previous registry before you mess with it at all. Prolly goes without saying in these parts but still...