From: Jonathan Berry (jberry_at_islandnet.com)
Date: Thu Nov 15 2001 - 14:37:58 EST
I don't recall having trouble with AOL etc using standard
methods of deletion. Although they can reappear if you
reinstall or even use a service pack (e.g., a more recent
version of IE).
What bothered me more was the other cr** that installs in c:\
(they don't even have the courtesy to hide it as subdirectories)
Let's see
HotBurn v2
CDLCorp
CFGSAFE
IBMTOOLS (all the others could be subdirs under this one)
THINKPAD
IBMINFO
DTR
and then in c:\Program Files
NetShowServices
IBM Global Network
NetMeeting
Symantec
Norton AntiVirus
(and I may already have cleared off a few)
How much of that is useless? !! For a lot of this, you can look
at the provided help files and there is no explanation of what
it does.
A useful group resource would be batch files (containing a lot
of DELTREE commands and .REG references) that would clean this
stuff off a preload HD for each TP model. Maybe on a web page.
Bill Morrow? Paging Bill !
The batch file would have a few Y/N questions, so you
could skip stuff if you thought it might be useful. And test
for the existence of certain dirs so that you could use the
batch file iteratively (e.g., after a service pack) without it
asking you whether you wanted to remove something that you'd
already dealt with.
In article <200111151352.IAA08005_at_amanda.dorsai.org>, you wrote:
>> > Win 98 on 600: I wanted to clear space so deleted AOL, MSN and Online
>> Services and removed from the recycle bin. However the AOL code is >
>still there (45 mb) so the others must be too. How to really remove > via
>Windows? They do not appear in Add/Remove programs > > Jeffrey Race >
>
>I do this using Norton Cleansweep (which I bought as part of Norton
>Systemworks for $10 off Ebay.) Other than some other uninstalling
>programming, I don't know of any other way...
>
>
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