mention software uninstall, maybe you will not agree, because everyone will operate! There are three ways to uninstall the software: run the Uninstall uninstaller that comes with the software, run Add/Remove Programs in the Windows XP Control Panel, or use a third-party software to uninstall. But now we are not talking about such a simple uninstall, but some alternative uninstallation.
a Recovery Console to uninstall
all know, "Recovery Console" Windows XP can diagnose and recover systems, but it did not uninstall the program, if you want to uninstall it, You can do this:
Enter the "cmdcons" directory under the system partition, find the installation file of the "Recovery Console" and delete it; then select "Start → Settings → Control Panel → System", then In the "System Properties" dialog box, select the "Advanced" tab, click the "Settings" button under "Startup and Recovery Failure", click the "Edit" button in the pop-up "Startup and Recovery Failure" dialog box, and pop up In the window, delete the following statement: "C:\\CMDCONS\\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows XP Recovery Console" /cmdcons".
Second,
stubborn uninstall program when you uninstall the software, we often encounter something like this: Some programs are very stubborn, even if you have used a variety of tricks can not be uninstalled, which is Because the program is not completely installed, the program file is destroyed, or the program installation directory has been deleted, etc., you can use the Msicuu.exe, Msizap.exe that comes with Windows XP to uninstall it completely.
First open the Windows XP installation CD, install "Support Tools", then enter the hard drive's Support Tools installation directory (X:\\Program Files\\Support Tools), find Msicuu.exe and double-click, then it will pop up A "Windows Installer Clean Up" window that displays a list of all programs currently installed. You choose the stubborn program and click the "Rmove" button to uninstall.
If the above does not work, you are advised to uninstall Msizap.exe, is: Open the Registry Editor, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MacHINE \\ Software \\ Microsoft \\ Windows \\ CurrentVersion \\ Uninstall, stubborn programs find items on the left The logo (for example, {268723B7-A994-4286-9F85-B974D5CAFC7B}), and then select the "Start → Programs → Windows Support Tools → Command Prompt" command, at the command prompt, enter the following command: msizap T { stubborn program Logo}, press Enter to uninstall the stubborn program.
Third, unloading the "Add or Remove Programs" in the name of the program remaining
Control Panel "Add or Remove Programs" is a commonly used method to uninstall the software. However, after some software is uninstalled, its program name will be left in "Add or Remove Programs" (for example, VoptXP V7.12), even if you click the "Change/Remove" button, you can't clear it. At this time, you can clear it. They:
Select "Start → Run", enter "Regedit" command in the pop-up "Run" dialog box to open the Registry Editor, first click "Export Registration" under the "File" menu of the registry The table file "backs up the registry, if there is a problem after deletion, you can restore the original registry.
Next, locate the following location HKEY_LO-CAL_MacHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Uninstall, find the remaining program name (for example, VoptXP V7.12), and delete it.
In order to completely uninstall, you should also select the "Edit → Find" menu command in the registry, open the "Find" dialog box, enter the name of the program to be uninstalled in "Find Target", find and The related items of the program are deleted, and then continue to use the "Find Next" command to find and delete all the items of the program.
Tip: After the software is uninstalled by the above method, some files remain in the original directory. You don't have to worry about it, just delete the installation directory.
Fourth, uninstall
driver Some friends like to upgrade the driver, but after the upgrade, but they can not be removed by the system uninstaller, for this purpose, you can use the software Driver Cleaner (Download the address
http://www.mydrivers.com/tools/dir11/d4675.htm
) to uninstall the driver.
Driver Cleaner can uninstall ATi and NVIDIA display drivers, completely uninstall ATi WDM Driver, ATi MMC, ATi HydraVision, Creative Audio Driver, kx Audio Driver, kx Aureal Driver, NVIDIA WDM Driver, NVIDIA Stereo Driver, etc. Drivers; in addition, you can run CCleaner.exe in the Driver Cleaner installation directory, and you can also uninstall the driver packages such as Driver.cab, SP1.cab, SP2.cab, and SP3.cab that are already installed on the system.
Fifth, do not unload DLL file
if you want the system to automatically unload the DLL file is no longer used, you can do this: Open the Registry Editor, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MacHINE \\ SOFTWARE \\ Microsoft \\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer, create a new "AlwaysUnloadDLL" key in the right pane, the type is a string value, the value is 1. Finally save and exit and restart your computer.
six unloading system restore point
If you want to uninstall redundant system restore points, leaving only the most recent system restore point, you can do this: Select "Start → Run" in the In the pop-up "Run" dialog box, enter the "Cleanmgr" command, then select a drive in the "Select Drive" dialog box that pops up, and click the "OK" button. In the Disk Cleanup dialog box, select the Other Options tab, click the Clean button under System Restore, and click the Yes button in the pop-up prompt box.
yourself if you want to delete the restore points, you can also select "Tools → Folder Options" menu command in the Explorer, and then in the pop-up dialog box, select the "View" tab, uncheck the Select the "Hide protected operating system files" checkbox. Next, go to the "System Volume Information" directory on the hard disk and open the folder starting with "_restore". There are many subdirectories starting with RPx, which is a restore point. For RPx, where x is the number of the restore point, the larger the number, the newer the corresponding restore point, you can choose to delete the subdirectory at the beginning of RPx, so the corresponding restore point is deleted.