Guest Vaithy Posted July 21, 2007 Posted July 21, 2007 I used the "change/remove program" to remove a connectivity cable driver that I had installed and didn't work. After a few tries the name of the driver is still sitting in the list of programs; also, a re-install didn't work. How to get rid of the unwanted cable driver program? I have Windows XP Sp2. Should I go to DOS and try? -- Raja Vaithy
Guest db ´¯`·.. > Posted July 21, 2007 Posted July 21, 2007 Re: Problem Removing Program sometimes, an uninstall isn't as clean as it should be and can leave orphaned registry keys. This is due to the program being poorly written. The matter becomes worst when re-installations and re-uninstalls are done by the user, with the hopes to resolve issues by the faulty or incompatible program, like the one you have now. Notwithstanding, make sure the parent folder for that program is deleted from the harddrive. Then you might want to use a registry cleaner to search and remove orphaned registry keys. I suggest one called EUSING. In regards to the orphaned line item left in add/remove programs; i use a third party program that let's me pick and choose which ones to delete from the listing. -- db ·´¯`·.¸. , . .·´¯`·..><)))º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><)))º>¸. ><)))º>·´¯`·.¸. , . .·´¯`·.. ><)))º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><)))º> .. "Vaithy" <Vaithy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:9C5E3971-B6CE-4F76-B34E-EC030F350885@microsoft.com... >I used the "change/remove program" to remove a connectivity cable >driver that > I had installed and didn't work. After a few tries the name of the > driver is > still sitting in the list of programs; also, a re-install didn't work. > How to > get rid of the unwanted cable driver program? I have Windows XP Sp2. > Should I > go to DOS and try? > -- > Raja Vaithy
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