-=PCTechTalk=- Re: software


Hi GMan, thank you for the response.
First I learned another thing from you again today, never knew to do a
search in the "Containing Text" always did my search in files and folders
and could not find "MadOnion" there.
Did the search now in "Containing text" and it came up with 3 different
things: 1) setupapi.log C/Windows 419kB LOG-file and it says it is changed
on 4-15-03. I don't know what that is and I don't know of changing it. I
looked at it in the C/Windows file but can't do anything further with it.
2) Send Items.dbx C/Windows\Application 32.946 kB DBX-file.
3) marjan.dbx C/Windows\Application 1.003kB DBX-file.
In the Add/Remove function I can't remove it, I click on it but it stays
there and there is no warning.
So that is it, I hope I was clear enough. -:)
Sylvia.



> Sylvia,
>     I'm butting in only to help save Ellie from some of those one-handed
> keystrokes.  Of course, she'll probably laugh at this and tell me that she
> needs the practice.      ;O}
>
>     My first thought is that the software was already removed (or at least
> moved to a different location).  When you click on the Add/Remove button,
it
> looks to the registry for the location of a log file specific to that
> program or game.  The log file tells Windows exactly what to remove and
> where it can find those items on the hard drive.  If the file is not where
> it is supposed to be, the Add/Remove function will either warn you that it
> couldn't locate the file or it will just do nothing.  My suggestion would
be
> to run a search on your hard drive for anything related to this program.
> Place the word "MadOnion" (without the quotation marks) in the "Containing
> Text" field of the Windows Search utility and let it run for as long as it
> takes to complete.  It may take quite some time to finish if you have a
lot
> of files.  When it's finished, note the path to the files it finds.  Open
up
> Windows Explorer and go to that location.  If the files it finds are in
any
> of your main Windows folders (C:\Windows, C:\Windows\System, etc.), it
won't
> tell us much, but it should also lead you to a Program Files folder
specific
> to the program.  If the search turns up nothing other than USER.DAT OR
> SYSTEM.DAT (the two main files that make up the registry), then the
program
> has already been fully removed, except for the one registry entry.  Let us
> know what turns up and we'll help guide you further on getting rid of it
> completely.             :O)
>
> Peace,
> GMan
>
> PCTT Owner
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sylviavandewall" <pvdw@xxxxxx>
> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 7:35 PM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: software
>
>
> Hello Ellie,
> Hope with a bit more time you feel better because just a week past after
> surgery is very short. You can always borrow my left hand because I'm left
> handed and very bad in doing things with my right hand. -:)
> I downloaded the new Simcity4 a while ago so maybe it came with that game.
> I'm sure I did not have it before because I have this computer for 2 years
> now and the video-card came with it. Nobody else touches this computer and
I
> never had it in the shop. In the control panel in the software file it's
not
> possible to delete it. I tried to click on the install/remove buttom but
> nothing happens, it just stays there.
> I'm not so good on the computer to do a reformat every 6 months, I wish I
> was, but I think I would mess things up more if I would do that.
> sylvia.
>
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