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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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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.

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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!

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!

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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

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