I need to completely strip two software packages off my PC - Utterly. Suggestions

Feek · 21 May 2006 at 23:41

I have a problem with both MSN and Trillian in that neither will connect. At least, that's how it appears to me. It does seem that sometimes other people see them connected even though I don't and occasionally a window will pop open when someone messages me even though it says it's not connected. Duh.

I want to completely and utterly strip out both of these as far as is humanely possible and then reinstall (hopefully) Trillian but if push comes to shove then I'd load MSN, or even something else that will do the job.

Any suggestions/advice/tips/tools as to the best [safe] way to completely remove these two applications leaving no trace anywhere?

OS is XP Professional fully patched.

K.

SiriusB · 21 May 2006 at 23:46

Dont know about Trillian, but MSN is pretty tidy IIRC when getting rid.

Two proggies that I know of that kill crap left behind from uninstalled programs are CCleaner and RegSeeker. Apparantly CCleaner is ill-favoured at the moment but I have never had a problem. I don't have a choice either because RegSeeker REALLY doesn't like Dual Core and nothing I have done has allowed me to run it

SiriusB

Caged · 21 May 2006 at 23:57

I don't think doing that is going to achieve anything. If both programs have trouble with connections you need to look elsewhere at your configuration.

Beansprout · 22 May 2006 at 00:00

Caged said:
I don't think doing that is going to achieve anything. If both programs have trouble with connections you need to look elsewhere at your configuration.

Depends...MSN can be funny sometimes.

Infact, let's rephrase...sometimes, MSN can work

Feek...I would run the un-installers, restart, open regedit ( start > cmd >regedit), hit F3 and type in msnmsgr or MSN Messenger, and see what it throws up - there might be deletable things left behind.

Those suggestions above might also do that for you

ns400r · 22 May 2006 at 00:08

Never had a problem uninstalling (or installing) Trillian to be honest. Just run the Add/Remove from control panel and it's gone (or so it seems). Most of it's connection preferences are kept in it's 'users' folder anyway.

Mana · 22 May 2006 at 02:22

hmm damn, i think u are just unlucky

, i have never had a problem with msn installed. i agree with the advice here tho, just do a normal unistall and then use a reg cleaner and then maybe go through things manually.

hope this helps dude.

Feek · 22 May 2006 at 10:38

I've done the MSN remove before but when I've reinstalled it, it's saved certain settings so the uninstall hasn't been that good.

K.