Hoe to delete persistent files

On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 20:17:25 +0100, RJK wrote:

You, and Char Jackson are of course both correct in all your observations.
Occasionally,

I had fun trimming the above post before replying :-)

If I can do that kind of quoting, I should be a politician, don't you
think?

Now to the serious part of this post:

It seems that installation and uninstallation are things where the
programmers know what to do (or *should* know), but don't always do it.

I think we all are justified in being annoyed in many cases...

BTW, people tend to blame Windows, but actually, the uninstallers are
provided by the software makers. All Windows does is provide the
services that their scripts use.

Of course, when the software being uninstalled is a Microsoft product,
we can legitimately blame them if the process is not done right.

I'm going to just lurk in this thread now, before I or others start
getting religious :-)

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message
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On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 20:17:25 +0100, RJK wrote:

You, and Char Jackson are of course both correct in all your
observations.
Occasionally,

I had fun trimming the above post before replying :-)

If I can do that kind of quoting, I should be a politician, don't you
think?

Now to the serious part of this post:

It seems that installation and uninstallation are things where the
programmers know what to do (or *should* know), but don't always do it.

I think we all are justified in being annoyed in many cases...

BTW, people tend to blame Windows, but actually, the uninstallers are
provided by the software makers. All Windows does is provide the
services that their scripts use.

Of course, when the software being uninstalled is a Microsoft product,
we can legitimately blame them if the process is not done right.

I'm going to just lurk in this thread now, before I or others start
getting religious :-)

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

You're quite right ! ...in addition to often woefully inadequate / token
gesture un-install scripts, there's the often very bad quality of the
appication program itself.
Many years ago, Mcafee anti-virus/internet security was VERY poorly written,
and would simply not tolerate MOST IBM PC compatible envitonments into which
it was installed,
i.e. Mcafee simply crippled almost every PC into which it was installed. I
'phoned their tech. support, and the advice was, "reinstall Windows 98se,
then install Mcafee and don't install anything else..." :-) ...before
you all pile in to defend Mcafee, I realise that Mcafee, and also general MS
Windows "DLL Hell" is somewhat improved in this regard during recent years,
and subsequent Windows platforms.

regards, Richard

On 28/07/2012 14:26, Rob wrote:
On 28/07/2012 8:37 AM, walter wrote:
I am trying to delete remnants of a program than I uninstalled, but it
will not let me delete some of the files. The original program was
DVDfab, the files I cannot get rid of is the dvdfab_burn_vso.log and the
dvdfab_internal.log

How can I delete these deletion-resistant files? Can I delete them from
the command prompt? How

Thanks


Just to stop the BS - The way to delete these files is with this.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/...Unlocker.shtml

I used Unlocker for years with XPH (32bit). Worked very well, but it
never worked properly under Win7HPx64. The last version I tried was
1.9.0 beta a couple of years ago.

I now use MoveOnBoot first, to get an "undeletable" file to the desktop,
then erase it with Eraser. I used to need only Eraser to erase at boot,
but even that has trouble deleting some files. That is why I prefer to
move first, then erase.

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Jeff