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By myitalian (0) on 7th February 2008

Question: How to uninstall a program in windows vista

Removing a software click -> start -> control panel -> Uninstall a program

Here is a list with programs that you can uninstall, each containing information about the Publisher (who made the software), when was the software installed and the size of it.

Click on the application you want to remove -> Uninstall

What you should know when uninstalling a program

There are some things you should now before or after uninstalling a software:

For safety reasons, you should log off every user (except the administrator) on the computer before uninstalling a software

Some of the programs are not completely uninstalled and they can leave some traces behind. My suggestion is to find out where the remaining file are and erase them (usually in Program Files or Documents)

You can only uninstall a program from Control Panel if it was originally installed with a Windows compatible setup program. Otherwise, you would have to manually delete the files, folders and the shortcuts

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  • harshads
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    Posted on 16th February 2008
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    Short and sweet!
    Very nice tutorial about uninstalling any application from windows vista.
    It is very much helpful for those who don’t know how to remove the unwanted application from their computer system.

    You can even remove certain applications from start menu:
    Start menu====>All Programs====>Select the application which you want to uninstall====>Click on uninstall(Name of the application).

    It’s done.

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