Is there a program that lets me delete programs without having to completely restore my system?
For some reason, I’m not able to delete some programs on my computer, because it says "This program is being used by another program" or for some other reason. There’s a lot of programs under Add/Remove Programs that I can’t get rid of as well because they don’t have the "Remove" button on them. So is there a program I can download that can delete these unwanted programs completely, without the need for cleaning out my computer entirely?
You might consider a program like QuickClean. Once installed, it watches which program files go where and can remove unneeded files for you…
And u can follow these steps to remove these unwanted program:
Click "Start" > "All Programs" > "Accessories" > "Notepad". This opens Notepad.
Click "File" in the Notepad menu bar and click "Open" in the context menu. This
opens a Finder window.
Navigate to C:\WINDOWS\INF\SYSOC.INF in the finder window, click to select it,
then click the "Open" button.
Locate the entry for the program you want to delete. The entry will have the
word "hide" in it. Remove the word hide but not the comma. For example, to cause "Games" to show in Add/Remove Programs, do the following:
Start with: Games=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,games.inf,HIDE,7
Change to: Games=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,games.inf,,7
Click "File" in the Notepad menu bar and click "Save" in the context menu. Close the Notepad window.
Click "Start" > "Control Panel" > "Add or Remove Programs". The program whose entry you modified will now be listed and you will be able to remove
Open up your documents —> My computer —-> C drive —-> Program Files, after that you should look through some of the File Folders of the programs and be able to delete them.
There is a lot of third party programs that can uninstall programs from your computer if the add/remove programs in the control panel is not working for you. Try a program called perfect uninstall. I don’t think its free but hit me up n I’ll send it to you. Other than that, an easier method is to download the same program that wont uninstall, install the same program again, so that it will install on top of what is already there and refresh the files. Then you should b able to uninstall it since all the files will b replaces & or will b new.
B.T.W. Don’t do what Jarrett told you. Its not the correct way to uninstall a program and will leave a lot of orphan / extra files on your computer. Programs do not only install to the program files folder, but to the registry and other parts of your hard drive.