Okay, serious problem here. My little brother installed OpenMG and SoundStage by SONY onto my machine. When I told him to get rid of the program, he went in and deleted the guts rather than used Add/Remove Programs. Now, every time I start the computer (or a program on the computer), OpenMG attempts to re-install itself and will not uninstall via Add/Remove Programs. I fight with it for about ten minutes per startup.

I'm operating on Windows XP...can you recommend any free downloads which will rid my computer of this program? It was installed too far back to system restore, or else I would try that.

Please help!

Thanks!
Dassala Remove all traces of the program from safe mode.

Clean your registry as well.

The installer is RESIDING somewhere, probably in C:\windows\temp. Remove the contents of that folderdassala....... The first thing I would do is D/L and reinstall the 2 apps ........ and then remove them using Add/Remove function in the control panel........ If for some reason that won't do it ...then I would be going into the registry and doing a search for "OpenMG" then remove all the entries it finds .......... there will be multiple entries so after you find and delete one entry run search again until you see the result displayed " Finished searching through the registry" at that point you know you have removed all the entries ........now do the same thing ...only this time search for "SoundStage "

To do a registry search ...do the following ........
Click start / Run .....and in the run box type regedit followed by pressing the ok key ........ the registry editor box will open .......click the edit button and then Find ....the find box opens ...in the find what box .....type OpenMG .......then click find next .........if there are any entries ......you will be taken directly to that location ...........very carefully hilite the entry and delete it . now go back and search again for SoundMG ....repeat this until you get this message displayed ....... "Finished searching through the registry"
Now use the same procedure for the other unwanted entry .....Soundstage ........

A word of caution ..........ALWAYS make a backup of the regististry just in case you remove the wrong thing .......

If you are not COMFORTABLE editing your registry ..........then DON'T ......... look for someone who is used to doing manual registry edits and have them assist you.......

Good luck

dl65

I've cleaned out the registry and deleted every single file I could find relating to SonicStage (that's what it's called...not SoundStage) and OpenMG. Yet, the problem continues to get worse. I'm fighting with it even as I type this. Am I at a dead end? Is reformatting my only hope?

Thanks so much for your help before, I'm just...panicking.

DassalaType - msconfig - in the Run window and see if there is any reference to either of these programs in the Start-Up tab.dassala....... OpenMG......is related to real player ..........( real player is full of spyware and crap ) Have a look and see if Real player is installed ........if it is remove it and see if that improves things ....... ( you can always reinstall it ........but there are better things )

Go off line .......reboot into safe mode and then clean out the temp folder , then run ad aware SE , Spybot , antispyware ( if you're using win 2k or XP ) ...... you might ALSO d/l and run ..... ccleaner ....... get it at .....
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let us know

dl65 Phew! I'm not sure which thing did it, but I ran the program you suggested and fixed everything in msconfig. Safemode seemed to help for deleting my temp file as well.

Thanks SO much to all of you, I'll definitely recommend this site to everyone else who has computer problems!

-Dassala