Baffling problem

[Dusty]

I made the nigration from an XP system to a windows 7 system last
week. I'm hAving problems uninstalling programs. So far I have 3
programs that will not uninstall. The uninstaller immediatly hangs.
Thr process can not be killed. The only way to get control back i to
reboot. I've tried reinstalling these programs but the installer hangs
also. My next step is to get lists of all reg entries and uninstall
manually. Anybody have any ideas? This is really trying my patience
with windows 7.
Any comments or suggestions appriceated.
Tnx,
Dusty

 

[Allen Drake]

I made the nigration from an XP system to a windows 7 system last
week. I'm hAving problems uninstalling programs. So far I have 3
programs that will not uninstall. The uninstaller immediatly hangs.
Thr process can not be killed. The only way to get control back i to
reboot. I've tried reinstalling these programs but the installer hangs
also. My next step is to get lists of all reg entries and uninstall
manually. Anybody have any ideas? This is really trying my patience
with windows 7.
Any comments or suggestions appriceated.
Tnx,
Dusty

I have always started with a clean install after formatting disk. I
am not sure what you mean by "migration". If you mean installing
software after installing Win7 then start over and install one at a
time. Did you run Windows 7 upgrade advisor?

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=20

Al.

 

[Big Steel]

I made the nigration from an XP system to a windows 7 system last
week. I'm hAving problems uninstalling programs. So far I have 3
programs that will not uninstall. The uninstaller immediatly hangs.
Thr process can not be killed. The only way to get control back i to
reboot. I've tried reinstalling these programs but the installer hangs
also. My next step is to get lists of all reg entries and uninstall
manually. Anybody have any ideas? This is really trying my patience
with windows 7.
Any comments or suggestions appriceated.
Tnx,
Dusty

<http://www.bing.com/search?q=revo+u...&pq=revo%20uninstaller&sp=2&sc=8-16&form=QBRE>

 

[Brian Matthews]

I made the nigration from an XP system to a windows 7 system last
week. I'm hAving problems uninstalling programs. So far I have 3
programs that will not uninstall. The uninstaller immediatly hangs.
Thr process can not be killed. The only way to get control back i to
reboot. I've tried reinstalling these programs but the installer hangs
also. My next step is to get lists of all reg entries and uninstall
manually. Anybody have any ideas? This is really trying my patience
with windows 7.
Any comments or suggestions appriceated.
Tnx,
Dusty

Depending on each program, you may be able to re-install the program
and then uninstall it. Probably a Google search for each program would
find answers.

There's"uninstall" freeware programs out there for XP but I haven't
needed one for Windows 7 yet.

Brian

 

[Dusty]

I have always started with a clean install after formatting disk. I
am not sure what you mean by "migration". If you mean installing
software after installing Win7 then start over and install one at a
time. Did you run Windows 7 upgrade advisor?

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=20

Al.

By "migration" I mean I left the XP machine behind and bought a new 7
system. The only thing I coppied to the new system is my data drive.
(126Gb of music, pictures, vids, Etc. All the programs were installed
"clean"
Tnx for trying

 

[Dusty]

<http://www.bing.com/search?q=revo+u...&pq=revo%20uninstaller&sp=2&sc=8-16&form=QBRE>

I'm assumming that you think the Revo uninstaller is what I need? Why
is that different? Sorry but after so many decades I don't take
anything at face value, and I still get bugs and stuff. <grin>
Tnx, a bunch, I'll look into it
Dusty

 

[Johnbee]

I found when I first tried Win7 that the deinstall was a bit different, in
that it did not seem to do much - if a thing was tiddly it worked fine
seemingly, but a bigger thing just went dead, taking a few minutes to do
anything. However it was actually doing it, just without any visual
indication.

So I thought that perhaps you are a bit impatient or just hoping to see a
blue bar showing progress or something. and you get a bit worried after
only a couple of minutes. It is worth trying a deinstall and letting it
take its time.

 

[Char Jackson]

I made the nigration from an XP system to a windows 7 system last
week. I'm hAving problems uninstalling programs. So far I have 3
programs that will not uninstall. The uninstaller immediatly hangs.

You've gotten some generic answers that may or may not help. For more
specific answers, you might divulge the names of the three unspecified
programs. Perhaps someone else has run into the same situation with
one or more of them and can offer specific help.

 

[Dusty]

I found when I first tried Win7 that the deinstall was a bit different, in
that it did not seem to do much - if a thing was tiddly it worked fine
seemingly, but a bigger thing just went dead, taking a few minutes to do
anything. However it was actually doing it, just without any visual
indication.

So I thought that perhaps you are a bit impatient or just hoping to see a
blue bar showing progress or something. and you get a bit worried after
only a couple of minutes. It is worth trying a deinstall and letting it
take its time.

I did a little research on the software package mentioned in another
post. It looked reasonable so I downloaded it. Damn if the installer
didn't hang. Based on your reply I didn't touch it. It sat there with
the status bar at 3/4 for a full 15 minutes. Then again, it was hung
and nothing would clear it. The kill process in the task manager did
nothing. Again I had to reboot to get control back. Now I have 3
programs that didn't install and won't uninstall or reinstall. I'm
getting pretty frazzled here. I can't even find any information about
reparing the msie package. Damn I'm starting to hate Windows 7.
Anybody? I'm grasping at anything, help?
Tnx,
Dusty

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I did a little research on the software package mentioned in another
post. It looked reasonable so I downloaded it. Damn if the installer
didn't hang. Based on your reply I didn't touch it. It sat there with
the status bar at 3/4 for a full 15 minutes. Then again, it was hung
and nothing would clear it. The kill process in the task manager did
nothing. Again I had to reboot to get control back. Now I have 3
programs that didn't install and won't uninstall or reinstall. I'm
getting pretty frazzled here. I can't even find any information about
reparing the msie package. Damn I'm starting to hate Windows 7.
Anybody? I'm grasping at anything, help?
Tnx,
Dusty

Have you considered telling the newsgroup *what* these offending
programas are?

How do you know it's Windows and not those programs?

How can anyone help you with totally anonymous programs?

 

[Dusty]

You've gotten some generic answers that may or may not help. For more
specific answers, you might divulge the names of the three unspecified
programs. Perhaps someone else has run into the same situation with
one or more of them and can offer specific help.

Reasonable, Keep in mind 2 of these are programs I've used for years
(literally)

Linkstash from xrays software. to organize browser bookmarks
AVS audio converter. Used to convert several chapter audiobooks into
one file.

and the one I just got and tried
Revo uninstaller

Tnx,
Dusty

 

[Dusty]

Reasonable, Keep in mind 2 of these are programs I've used for years
(literally)

Linkstash from xrays software. to organize browser bookmarks
AVS audio converter. Used to convert several chapter audiobooks into
one file.

and the one I just got and tried
Revo uninstaller

Tnx,
Dusty

Oh, and Winrar did the same thing
Dusty

 

[Dusty]

You've gotten some generic answers that may or may not help. For more
specific answers, you might divulge the names of the three unspecified
programs. Perhaps someone else has run into the same situation with
one or more of them and can offer specific help.

And... I know somebody's gonna ask:
Intel i7 2600 3.4 Ghz chipset
8Gb Ram
500Gb Main drive (partitioned into 2 drives)
Intel 120Gb SSD (system drive)
Seagate 2Tb external backup drive (USB 3.0)

 

[philo]

I made the nigration from an XP system to a windows 7 system last
week. I'm hAving problems uninstalling programs. So far I have 3
programs that will not uninstall. The uninstaller immediatly hangs.
Thr process can not be killed. The only way to get control back i to
reboot. I've tried reinstalling these programs but the installer hangs
also. My next step is to get lists of all reg entries and uninstall
manually. Anybody have any ideas? This is really trying my patience
with windows 7.
Any comments or suggestions appriceated.
Tnx,
Dusty

I've seen that before and the solution I used worked fine:

I simply *deleted* the application

then used ccleaner to find and delete the registry entries relating to
it. saves a lot of time manually searching

 

[Char Jackson]

Oh, and Winrar did the same thing
Dusty

I have no experience with the first three you mentioned, but I do have
WinRAR installed, which went without a hitch.

Probably a dumb question/tip, but Win 7 has a bad habit (sometimes) of
hiding a dialog box behind other windows when you'd expect it to be at
the front and have focus. Make sure you aren't getting tricked by
that.

 

[Allen Drake]

By "migration" I mean I left the XP machine behind and bought a new 7
system. The only thing I coppied to the new system is my data drive.
(126Gb of music, pictures, vids, Etc. All the programs were installed
"clean"
Tnx for trying

A long time ago I would have forgone all the frustration and used the
restore process to get your system back to where it was then it was
new. You must have a set of restore disks, right? Then I would install
everything again one at a time.

Al.

 

[Quilljar]

You haven't mentioned whether you have Win 7 64 or 32 bit?
I installed Win 7 about two years ago and transferred all my XP stuff and it
was the best thing I ever did.
I find Windows 7 almost as good as my Risc Acorn machine.

Q

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

I have no experience with the first three you mentioned, but I do have
WinRAR installed, which went without a hitch.

Probably a dumb question/tip, but Win 7 has a bad habit (sometimes) of
hiding a dialog box behind other windows when you'd expect it to be at
the front and have focus. Make sure you aren't getting tricked by
that.

It does _sound_ as if _something_ - possibly one of the first two
programmes or the installer for it/them, possibly something else - has
"broken" the install/uninstall process of Windows itself.

Sorry, that doesn't help you, but may help those trying to help, as it
were.

You say they are prog.s you have used "for years"; apologies for asking,
but you were installing a newish version of them, one that was/is
supposed to work under Windows 7 (and the right number of bits to match
what you've got)?

If you've got restore points going back that far, it _might_ be worth
using one from before - I'd say several days before - you tried to
install the first of the two. If that _seems_ to work, try installing
something else - Revo or WinRar perhaps - and see if that goes OK.