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I
have a program that says it was not installed correctly and needs to be
reinstalled. Well I am running Vista Ultimate and have gone to the
control panel and tried but it continues to not give me an option
weather I can change or delete it. I tried manually deleting it but it
still is registered when I tried to reinstall it. So I am stuck. I would
like to either go into command prompt or dos and just delete for good
but I don't know how. Help?
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Start > Run > cmd.exe
In the Command Prompt window,
cd %programfiles%
with the % signs. then type 'dir /p' (no quotes) for a list of directories. When you find the one you're looking for (it may be under a different name, like the app designer instead of the program name)
rd /s "directory name"
(e.g., rd /s "Mozilla Firefox" ).and hit 'y' to confirm. Make sure it's the right one- there's no easy 'undelete'/recycle bin if it's wrong.
You may also want to remove any application data that may exist.
cd %appdata%
then do the same, dir /p to find the right directory (this one should be the application name), then rd /s "directory name".
In the Command Prompt window,
cd %programfiles%
with the % signs. then type 'dir /p' (no quotes) for a list of directories. When you find the one you're looking for (it may be under a different name, like the app designer instead of the program name)
rd /s "directory name"
(e.g., rd /s "Mozilla Firefox" ).and hit 'y' to confirm. Make sure it's the right one- there's no easy 'undelete'/recycle bin if it's wrong.
You may also want to remove any application data that may exist.
cd %appdata%
then do the same, dir /p to find the right directory (this one should be the application name), then rd /s "directory name".
Source(s):
Working with command prompt since DOS 3.1
