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Answer» Hello, I recently purchased a PC with Windows 7 Pro. I installed a program that will not run in this version of windows. I tried to uninstall it but the program is not listed in the Installed Programs menu. There is no link to uninstall the program in the program's folder. In regedit, the program is listed under hotkeycurrentuser-Software but not under hotkeylocalmachine-anywhere! How do I get rid of this program? Please advise. What program ? ?MGI Photosuite. It's an older program but it ran FINE in Windows Vista so I thought it might run in Windows 7 as well. It doesn't. Hello, I recently purchased a PC with Windows 7 Pro. I installed a program that will not run in this version of windows. I tried to uninstall it but the program is not listed in the Installed Programs menu.Have you looked in Programs and Features? Open Control Panel to access the Programs and Features panel. Yes I have. The program is not listed in Programs & Features. It is a Windows 98 program, but as I said, it ran fine under Vista. I don't want to have to restore my computer to a date before I installed that program because I just finished moving all of my music from my iPod back into iTunes, installed .net framework, etc. If it had occurred to me to restore my computer as soon as I learned that I couldn't uninstall MGI Photosuite, I would have. I'm hoping there is another way to remove the program.What if I just deleted all the folders related to the program? It doesn't appear to have installed correctly anyway. Might that work? I haven't installed my camera yet or ANYTHING related to that photo program. Attached is a photo of the registry entry for this program. As you can see in the photo, it is listed under Hotkeycurrentuser/software/MGI. It is not listed anywhere else in the registry. Would it be safe for me to delete all of MGI's files and these registry keys? [recovering disk space, attachment deleted by admin]You can go ahead and delete the program's folders. There may be some stray dlls left in the system32 folder but they won't cause any problems by being there. You could run something like CCleaner to try to remove the UNUSED registry entries as well.Thank you, I'll try that. Revo un-installer should get rid of any stray entries...Thank you Patio, but Revo Uninstaller cannot find the program. Neither can Norton which keeps a record of every program installed on my computer. So, I'm thinking that MGI did not install, so removing all the files and registry should be ok. Stroller mentioned using CC Cleaner to remove leftover registry keys. How safe is that program? I need a recommendation for a registry cleaner that doesn't delete keys that are not safe to remove. |
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