Uninstaller Messed Up My Computer

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killswitch
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Uninstaller Messed Up My Computer

Post by killswitch » Fri May 15, 2009 4:06 pm

Just tried to uninstall Revolution Studio 3.0. The GUI's a joke, missing the Next button and whatnot. Finally completed uninstall by running the uninstaller directly in the application folder, but after restart, my computer's messed up.

My Add/Remove Programs utility is missing more than half of my installed programs, and programs like Adobe Photoshop now fail to initialize. Anybody had issues with this? What can be done?

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Post by Mark » Fri May 15, 2009 11:22 pm

Dear killswitch,

As far as I know, the Uninstaller is completely unnecessary. Just move old version of Revolution to the trash. Perhaps there is no Next button to prevent people from using it? ;-)

You could run Windows' Repair procedure. That should at least fix the Add/Remove Programmes control panel.

Good luck,

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Re: Uninstaller Messed Up My Computer

Post by skider86 » Sun Jul 12, 2009 2:19 am

I have suffered this issue this evening. I ran the uninstall from Add/Remove Programs and encountered the lack of the "next" button. I pressed the Enter key as someone suggested in another posting in the forums here and happily went about my business. Rebooted. Immediately upon returning to Add/Remove Programs the listing was just hosed. I was able to return to a Restore Point so I am left with a registry thinking Rev 3.0 is installed. Strangely there are quite a few files in the Revolution Enterprise folder - 52.7MB worth.

This is twice now that my Windows registry has been corrupted in this manner. I was not able to pin down the culprit last winter so ever since rebuilding the system I ALWAYS return to Add/Remove Programs after an uninstall and reboot.
killswitch wrote:Just tried to uninstall Revolution Studio 3.0. The GUI's a joke, missing the Next button and whatnot. Finally completed uninstall by running the uninstaller directly in the application folder, but after restart, my computer's messed up.

My Add/Remove Programs utility is missing more than half of my installed programs, and programs like Adobe Photoshop now fail to initialize. Anybody had issues with this? What can be done?

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