Cannot uninstall Windows Desktop Search

[Guest M8RIX]

Greetings,

I am receiving frequent (50+/day) errors in my event viewer related to

Windows Desktop Search. I would like to reinstall the program to see if I

can solve the problems. Unfortunately I see no way to uninstall the program.

There is no entry in the add/remove programs and there is no uninstall.exe

for it. There is no $NtUninstallKB907371$ entry for it either, and

reinstalling over the top of the existing installation does not recreate the

uninstall routine.

After doing some research on the matter, I see that someone had some success

in recreating the uninstall data by deleting some registry entries and then

doing a reinstall, but they did not say what entries they deleted. I am

fairly comfortable with editing the registry, but I don't really want to go

poking around in there for a program with as many hooks as WDS has without

some direction.

Can anyone help me get this program repaired, or at least uninstalled?

Thanks,

Mark N.

[Guest Kelly]

Re: Cannot uninstall Windows Desktop Search

 

From a previous post:

 

To locate the Product code in the registry, click Start then Run and type

"Regedit" in the Open drop down box and press enter. Next browse to the

following location:

 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSN Apps\MSN Toolbar Suite

 

The Product Code will be listed in the value of the PC key. For example

version 2.5.0.1082 PC registry value is

7d1dcbba-f6f5-42b4-b90b-f04ace4dfd6c.

 

Execute the following command line, listing the product code with in

brackets. For Version 2.5.0.1082 the command line would be as noted below.

Please note the brackets "{}" are required for this method to be successful.

 

Note: The /x switch causes Msiexec to uninstall the product and the /qn

switch will ensure that there is no display while uninstalling. Please see

msiexec.exe help (type msiexec /? From a command prompt) for more

information regarding command line options for Msiexec.exe.

 

 

 

Msiexec.exe /x {7d1dcbba-f6f5-42b4-b90b-f04ace4dfd6c} /qn

 

 

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All the Best,

Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP)

 

Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm

 

 

 

"M8RIX" <mn8r1@home.com> wrote in message

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> Greetings,

> I am receiving frequent (50+/day) errors in my event viewer related to

> Windows Desktop Search. I would like to reinstall the program to see if I

> can solve the problems. Unfortunately I see no way to uninstall the

> program.

> There is no entry in the add/remove programs and there is no uninstall.exe

> for it. There is no $NtUninstallKB907371$ entry for it either, and

> reinstalling over the top of the existing installation does not recreate

> the uninstall routine.

> After doing some research on the matter, I see that someone had some

> success in recreating the uninstall data by deleting some registry entries

> and then doing a reinstall, but they did not say what entries they

> deleted. I am fairly comfortable with editing the registry, but I don't

> really want to go poking around in there for a program with as many hooks

> as WDS has without some direction.

> Can anyone help me get this program repaired, or at least uninstalled?

> Thanks,

> Mark N.

>