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Removing Roxio
On 18/05/2017 22:34, philo wrote:
On 05/18/2017 12:02 PM, Fokke Nauta wrote: On 16/05/2017 16:14, Wolf K wrote: On 2017-05-16 10:03, Mike Easter wrote: philo wrote: Now, when I boot to Vista I get a message that a "driver was blocked due to imcompatability." When I look at "details" all it says is "CD recording software Roxio." Location "unknown" Though this is rather unimportant I'd still like to trace down and remove this annoying "driver." I would check in Device manager in the Driver tab section or remove the device in the manager and let Win put it back. Start/ CP/ System/ Device manager/ DVD-CDROM drives/ (select your device) R click for Properties and examine the drivers tab And next time use Revo or similar 3rd party uninstaller. It does a much better job of removing every folder etc than you can. +1 Revo is the best utility one can use in this situation. Fokke Nauta Actually not. I decided to give it a try and did a system restore prior to the point where I manually uninstalled Roxio. Used Revo and it still left quite a bit... so I undid the restore. It can be very tedious to to a manual registry edit but I have every last bit of Roxio gone...but the best thing is I learned a bit more of how the registry works, Fully disagree. Had a number of occasions where a normal uninstall did not work. I have the registered version of Revo and in uninistalled everything, including all registry tracks. The only thing I needed to do - in one occasion - is to remove the map from the programs direcotory. Fokke |
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Removing Roxio
On 5/18/2017 3:55 PM, Fokke Nauta wrote:
snop And next time use Revo or similar 3rd party uninstaller. It does a much better job of removing every folder etc than you can. +1 Revo is the best utility one can use in this situation. Fokke Nauta Actually not. I decided to give it a try and did a system restore prior to the point where I manually uninstalled Roxio. Used Revo and it still left quite a bit... so I undid the restore. It can be very tedious to to a manual registry edit but I have every last bit of Roxio gone...but the best thing is I learned a bit more of how the registry works, Fully disagree. Had a number of occasions where a normal uninstall did not work. I have the registered version of Revo and in uninistalled everything, including all registry tracks. The only thing I needed to do - in one occasion - is to remove the map from the programs direcotory. Fokke Ok ... I used the free version which evidently is not as thorough. |
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Removing Roxio
philo wrote:
Fokke Nauta wrote: Had a number of occasions where a normal uninstall did not work. I have the registered version of Revo and in uninistalled everything, including all registry tracks. The only thing I needed to do - in one occasion - is to remove the map from the programs direcotory. Ok ... I used the free version which evidently is not as thorough. My most extensive experience with Revo was in conjunction with other tools decontaminating someone else's Windows system and under the tutelage of a bleepingcomputer helper. Revo was very helpful, but it didn't do everything I wanted. Here's Revo's comparison of their products: https://www.revouninstaller.com/revo..._download.html If I were going to 'make a habit' of trying to do those kinds of cleanups (as opposed to wiping and reinstalling) more power in the uninstaller would be helpful. -- Mike Easter |
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Removing Roxio
On 5/18/2017 5:00 PM, Mike Easter wrote:
philo wrote: Fokke Nauta wrote: Had a number of occasions where a normal uninstall did not work. I have the registered version of Revo and in uninistalled everything, including all registry tracks. The only thing I needed to do - in one occasion - is to remove the map from the programs direcotory. Ok ... I used the free version which evidently is not as thorough. My most extensive experience with Revo was in conjunction with other tools decontaminating someone else's Windows system and under the tutelage of a bleepingcomputer helper. Revo was very helpful, but it didn't do everything I wanted. Here's Revo's comparison of their products: https://www.revouninstaller.com/revo..._download.html If I were going to 'make a habit' of trying to do those kinds of cleanups (as opposed to wiping and reinstalling) more power in the uninstaller would be helpful. I found CCleaner to be pretty good but I still had to manually delete a lot. Normally I would not put that much work into a system but this is my own machine and I kind of missed those days when fooling around like this was pretty common. |
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Removing Roxio ...add'l
Now that I have the registry problem solved I finally got the machine upgraded to Win7. Though not one bit of the original hardware exists anymore, this installation started out as Win2k , upgrade to XP and now Vista (briefly) and finally Win7. I suppose I may even go all the way to Win10 but not tonight |
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Removing Roxio
On 18/5/2017 10:37 PM, philo wrote:
No, I do not go out an buy new computers. I do on occasion build new ones though. You don't need to buy a whole new computer. Just buy a new hard disk or SSD. The installation I was talking about could have been dumped but I was fooling with it more as a learning experience and now know a bit more about the registry that I used to. Had I been in a hurry, I would have indeed simply backed up the data an performed a fresh install I periodically clean-install everything in my WinTendo to be sure that the system would be clean. -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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Removing Roxio ...add'l
On 19/5/2017 11:37 AM, philo wrote:
Though not one bit of the original hardware exists anymore, this installation started out as Win2k , upgrade to XP and now Vista (briefly) and finally Win7. I suppose I may even go all the way to Win10 The free Win 10 upgrade is still valid. Claim it by installing it once using a spare hard disk, then fall back to the hard disk with Win 7 if you prefer. -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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Removing Roxio
On 5/19/2017 5:32 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 18/5/2017 10:37 PM, philo wrote: No, I do not go out an buy new computers. I do on occasion build new ones though. You don't need to buy a whole new computer. Just buy a new hard disk or SSD. The installation I was talking about could have been dumped but I was fooling with it more as a learning experience and now know a bit more about the registry that I used to. Had I been in a hurry, I would have indeed simply backed up the data an performed a fresh install I periodically clean-install everything in my WinTendo to be sure that the system would be clean. All the hardware from my original Win2k machine has been replaced. Hard drive, motherboard , everything. The original installation though still exists in that it was upgraded now to Win7. I had used XP for many years and upgraded to Vista only for the purpose of then upgrading to Win7 It works fine! |
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Removing Roxio
On 19/5/2017 7:04 PM, philo wrote:
All the hardware from my original Win2k machine has been replaced. Hard drive, motherboard , everything. The original installation though still exists in that it was upgraded now to Win7. I had used XP for many years and upgraded to Vista only for the purpose of then upgrading to Win7 It works fine! As long as it makes you happy. I think you should get a spare hard disk and try Win 10. Have fun! -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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Removing Roxio
On 5/19/2017 9:12 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 19/5/2017 7:04 PM, philo wrote: All the hardware from my original Win2k machine has been replaced. Hard drive, motherboard , everything. The original installation though still exists in that it was upgraded now to Win7. I had used XP for many years and upgraded to Vista only for the purpose of then upgrading to Win7 It works fine! As long as it makes you happy. I think you should get a spare hard disk and try Win 10. Have fun! Oh I have performed many win10 installations, I already have a spare drive with win10 for this machine |
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Removing Roxio ...add'l
On 5/19/2017 5:34 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 19/5/2017 11:37 AM, philo wrote: Though not one bit of the original hardware exists anymore, this installation started out as Win2k , upgrade to XP and now Vista (briefly) and finally Win7. I suppose I may even go all the way to Win10 The free Win 10 upgrade is still valid. Claim it by installing it once using a spare hard disk, then fall back to the hard disk with Win 7 if you prefer. yes, I have done quite a few upgrades and as long as Win7 is activated, so will the Win10 upgrade that's why I'm updating Win7 machines npw |
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