Napster won't uninstall

godzilla525godzilla525 Western Pennsylvania Member
edited November 2006 in Science & Tech
I get a little popup window from AVG this morning that says 7.1 Free will be discontinued soon (in favor of 7.5 Free) so I decide to go ahead and put that in.

Uh oh, AVG Setup says there is an outdated version of Roxio Easy CD & DVD Creator installed somewhere. I don't recall installing Easy CD Destroyer, and it's not listed in Add/Remove Programs. But Napster is, and I haven't used that in ages since 1. It stopped working and 2. Most of the wma files sounded like 128kbps mp3 files circa 1997 (underwater with metallic sibilance). I go to uninstall that so it'll pull out the Roxio burning engine that it comes with... uh oh...
You are trying to install a version of Napster that is older than your current version. If you want to do this, please go to the Control Panel and use Add/Remove Programs to remove your current version of Napster, and then start the installation again.
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Guess where I am, and guess what I'm trying to do.

If anybody knows how to manually unregister and remove Napster and the Roxio Burn Engine from the system, it would help a lot. :)

Comments

  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited October 2006
    First of all, make sure that none of the services or startup items relating to the programs are enabled. You don't want to reboot and have Windows hang because it's trying to load something which is no longer there.

    Then delete the folders, files, and shortcuts relating to the programs you're getting rid of.

    Finally, finish it off by scouring the registry for any traces of them. A program like RegCleaner (free) works well for this. :)
  • godzilla525godzilla525 Western Pennsylvania Member
    edited November 2006
    OK.. I did that for everything I could find Roxio-related (I used Crap Cleaner though since I already had it installed) the AVG installer still complained but I installed it anyway and haven't had any incidents.

    It'll take forever to get it all out because some idiot decided it was a good idea to put chunks of the program all over the place and bury them everywhere instead of in only one folder. :rolleyes2

    As a side note, when digging around in the user profiles stash of windows getting rid of Roxio stuff, I found AVG 7.1 has been holding onto every single update binary for about 2 years. :shakehead So I uninstalled AVG, deleted about 550MB (!) of .bin files, and started over.

    I also got Automatic Updates fixed (was broken for ages), and it downloaded and installed no less than 34 patches. :crazy: I'm beginning to regret that now because it's pestering me to install IE7. ...DO NOT WANT... (I'm firewalled behind NAT and don't use IE much anyway, so patching is more or less an optional thing)
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2006
    A firewall won't save you from 99% of the IE flaws. Just so you know.
  • godzilla525godzilla525 Western Pennsylvania Member
    edited November 2006
    That's why I don't use IE 99% of the time :)

    The remaining 1% is windows update, because they ..well.. I have nothing nice to say about that.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited November 2006
    godzilla525 wrote:
    ...when digging around in the user profiles stash of windows getting rid of Roxio stuff, I found AVG 7.1 has been holding onto every single update binary for about 2 years...
    That got me curious, so I did a little hunting of my own. I didn't have a problem with the bin files, but did find a 1,200 page (in Word) AVG email scan log which recorded every action going back to October of 2004. It was "only" 450MB... :wtf:
  • mtroxmtrox Minnesota
    edited November 2006
    profdlp wrote:
    a 1,200 page (in Word) AVG email scan log which recorded every action going back to October of 2004. It was "only" 450MB... :wtf:

    Somebody tell AVG about "notepad.exe"....
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited November 2006
    mtrox wrote:
    Somebody tell AVG about "notepad.exe"....
    I had to open it in Word because it was too big for Notepad. Even Wordpad choked on it.

    For comparison, the 220,000-word copy of the uncut Stranger In A Strange Land I have weighs in at just over a fourth of that in Word. :eek3:
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