How to uninstall a program that refuses to uninstall normally?

You may have installed so many software applications in your computer or your friends computer.When the particular software is no longer required and you may decide to uninstall that program. If that program gets uninstalled successfully then there are no problems. But some software cannot be uninstalled. No matter what you do that software will stay in your computer. If you are facing a similar situation then here is your solution.

Generally there are two ways in which you can uninstall a program.
Use the control panel's 'Add/Remove programs' and select the software that you want to uninstall and click the 'Remove' button to uninstall.
The software group itself will have a 'Uninstall' icon to uninstall the software.

If using the above two methods you cannot uninstall the software then you have another option to remove that software. By deleting the registry keys related to that software. Here are the steps to remove an application that refuses to uninstall.

To Completely Uninstall the Software

Using the software's name or the company that developed the software you can search your computer and locate the folders in your computer and delete them.

And use the same procedure to remove from Registry, before starting create a backup.
Now click on 'Start->Run' and type 'regedit' and press enter key. Now the registry editor will open.
Right click on the my Computer icon in the registry -> Export and save the file as name.reg

Then press 'F3' button to search the next occurrence of the software key and delete. Likewise delete all occurrences.
Now reboot the computer. Check if there are any errors while rebooting. If there are no errors then deleting registry keys did not cause any problems. If there are any errors that means there was a problem due to editing the registry. Therefore restore the backup.

To check the Registry

It is very important to check whether there was any harm due to editing the registry. There are many 'Registry Error Checking' software. For example System mechanis, jv16 are some of the registry checker software. You can use these software to check your registry.

To remove the software name from the registry
Sometimes when you uninstall a program, even after installing you may still find the software listed under the 'Add/Remove programs' list. To remove the listing from the add remove programs list you can use the registry.
Open the registry editor by typing 'regedit' in the 'start->run' box.

Now click on the + icon in the 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE'. Now scroll down and select 'Microsoft', 'Windows', 'current version' and then 'uninstall'. In the right hand side watch the 'display name' and 'uninstall string'. The software name displayed in 'Display name' is what is listed in the 'Add/remove programs'.

Choose the software name that you want to delete and then click the delete button. Now in the confirmation dialog box click 'Yes'.
In the 'Uninstall string' key the windows folder in which the software is installed will be shown. Now in the explorer, go to this folder and deleted all contents.

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Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows

We use office Xp for the documents and other functions. To make the work easier you shuld make sure you know the shortcuts. For that here is Few Shortcuts for you..

To Operate the Shortcuts you need to press the CTRL + keys..

To Use Shortcut in FILE Menu
Ctrl + S = Save
Ctrl + N = New Document
Ctrl + O = Open Existing Document
Ctrl + P = Print
Ctrl + W = Close

To Use Shortcut in PARAGRAPH ALIGNMENT Menu
Ctrl + L = Left Aligned
Ctrl + R = Right Aligned
Ctrl + E = Center Aligned
Ctrl + J = Justified

To Use Shortcut in LINE SPACING Menu
Ctrl + 1 = Single Line Spacing
Ctrl + 2 = Double Line Spacing
Ctrl + 5 = 1½ Line Spacing

To Use Shortcut in Font Styles (with selected text)
Ctrl + B = Bold
Ctrl + I = Italic
Ctrl + U = Underlined.

To Use Shortcut in Page Scrolling
Ctrl + Home = Top of Document
Ctrl + End = Bottom of Document
Ctrl + Page Up = Top of Page
Ctrl + Page Down = Bottom of Page

To Use Shortcut in EDIT Menu
Ctrl + A = Select All
Ctrl + X = Cut
Ctrl + C = Copy
Ctrl + V = Paste
Ctrl + F = Find
Ctrl + H = Find & Replace
Ctrl + Z = Undo Ctrl + Y = Redo

(On the Mac, use the Command key as the Ctrl key.)

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Google Mail using shortcuts keys

Shortcut keys Action

f - Press simple f help you to forward email message to next

Shift+I - Use to mark email message as read

Shift+u - Use to mark email message as unread

r - Reply to the sender of mail

a - Reply to the all email recipients

Ctrl+c - Use to save current email as draft

Z - Press z key to undo any previous action

? - Display the keyboard shortcut keys help

c - Press c button to compose an new email message

/ - Press / button to move your cursor in search box

u - Press u key to refresh your email account to view latest email

! - Press ! key to mark an email message as spam

p - Press p key to move cursor to precious message

.(dot) - Press . key to display more options

Esc - Escape cursor from any current field.

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Safe Mode in Computer

While your computing is booting, you can instruct the computer to boot in 'safe mode'. Safe mode refers to secure mode. You may then ask, is our computer not secure when we boot normally. Let us see how is safe mode more secure than the normal booting.

When your computer gives problems and you want to identify where is the problem, then you can use the safe mode for this. In safe mode, only limited number of driver programs are enabled. Therefore you cannot use CD drive. You cannot use the printer. And many other unnecessary drivers are not enabled.

While in Safe Mode, you can use the ScanDisk, defrag and other utility programs to repair your computer. To bring the computer to safe mode. When Computer Turns on, you have to press the F8 key. You should press the F8 key before the windows screen appears. Then you can choose the safe mode option to boot.

Some Anti virus software will tell you that some viruses can only be removed in safe mode, therefore the antivirus software will automatically start in safe mode or you may have to goto safe mode and then run the virus removal utility to remove the virus.

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Know Downloading, Uploading Installing and Un-Installing

Downloading, Uploading, Installing and Un installing are most favorite words in the usage of computer and Internet. Let’s see about this.

Downloading is the transmission of a file from one computer system to another, usually smaller computer system. From the Internet user's point-of-view, to download a file is to request it from another computer (or from a Web page on another computer) and to receive it.

Uploading:

This is the reverse process of downloading. That is we can copy the files from can computer to a network or the Internet. Generally the process is run by F.T.P. some of the Internet website provide the way to upload the files through their browsers.And its transmission in the other direction: from one, usually smaller computer to another computer. From an Internet user's point-of-view, uploading is sending a file to a computer that is set up to receive it.

Installing:

Mostly the peoples confuse both downloading and installing. Installing means process of our computer is preparing for run a program. Generally its have a setup program to run when we are executing the setup program it ask some questions. We give to answer for this questions then it start copy the files to your computer for run the particular program. If we want to run the program we may click the icons in the desktop. Otherwise select the program from star/program menu.

UnInstalling:

This is also the reverse process of installing while installing the program. It will copy the files in your computer. When we don’t want the program it’s hard task find and delete the files. Because of that the developers are create one exe file for uninstalling with that program.

We can see the file in program directory. Otherwise we can uninstall the file by select the Add/Remove Program option in control panel. Here all the installed programs are arranged in alphabetical order. We can select the program from the list, which is wanted to uninstall.

How To Change the Windows Vista Product Key Code

Here's the Simple Way for changing the Microsoft Windows Vista's Product Key.

Right Click on My Computer Icon then Select Properties..and a new window appears inthat window there is link to Change Product Key Click on the Link..

Then you need to click next to change the Product Key..
Done!!

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