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How to Uninstall Microsoft Office

admin — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:33:53 +0000

There are lots of reasons to uninstall Microsoft Office. I uninstalled my Miccrosoft Office 2003 to install Microsoft Office 2007 a few weeks ago. Lost the original install disk, I found it was difficult to unintall Microsoft Office with Window’s Add/Delete program without the install disk. It was unistalled by Perfect Uninstaller at last.

How to uninstall Microsoft Office with Perfect Uninstaller, then?

Step 1: Download and install Perfect Uninstaller.

Step 2: Check the Windows system tray carefully to make sure that no applications of the Microsoft Office is still running in memory.

Step3: Force Uninstall
— Find the folder directly in the hard drive where you locate Microsoft Office
— Right-click the folder to select “Force Uninstall” to start.

Step4: Click Next and follow the onscreen hints to finish uninstall.

How to Uninstall Internet Explorer 8

admin — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:41:31 +0000

If you don’t like Internet Explorer 8 for some reason after installing it and want to revert back to IE7 (or IE6), you can use Perfect Uninstaller to uninstall Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) in Vista/XP. Since many users have the same demand, we have added Internet Explorere 8 into our special uninstall list which will help you easily remove IE8 with just a few clicks.

How to uninstall Internet Explorer 8 with Special Uninstall

Step 1: Download and install Perfect Uninstaller.
Step 2: Boot your PC in safe mode and run Perfect Uninstaller. If you don’t know how to get into safe mode, click here.
Step 3: Click Special Uninstall to open the application list as below.

Step 4: Click Internet Explorer 8.0 and click Next.

Step 5: Follow a few onscreen instructions to complete the next two or three steps.
Step 6: Restarting your computer is required to complete removal.

How to Uninstall Adobe

admin — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:05:34 +0000

Having problems uninstalling Adobe products from Windows Add/Remove Program? This tutorial will tell you how to make a clean remove of Adobe Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Photoshop and other similar Adobe products using Perfect Uninstaller – a better and easier uninstaller which takes the place of standard Windows Add/Remove Programs.

There are two solutions to uninstall Adobe. We recommend you use solution 1 prior to solution 2 and only when solution 1 fails you can carefully choose solution 2.

Solution 1: Uninstall Adobe with Standard Uninstall function

Step 1: Download and install Perfect Uninstaller.
Step 2: Find the specific Adobe product in the application list and select it.
Step 3: Click Uninstall to open the uninstall wizard. Follow the instructions and click a few Next to complete the uninstall process.
Step 4: Reboot your computer.

Solution 2: Uninstall Adobe with Special Uninstall function

Step 1: Run Perfect Uninstall.
Step 2: Click Special Uninstall to open the application list as below.

Step 3: Select the specific Adobe product in the list and click Next.

Step 4: Follow wizard instructions to complete the next several steps.
Step 5: Restarting your computer is required to complete removal.

How to Uninstall McAfee

admin — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:06:05 +0000

Perfect Uninstaller can easily and completely uninstall McAfee AntiVirus software, such as McAfee VirusScan, McAfee Security Center, and other similar McAee products. Follow the removal instructions below and uninstalling McAfee is no more an obstacle in your computer life.

How to uninstall McAfee with Perfect Uninstaller

Step 1: Download and install Perfect Uninstaller
Step 2: Right click on the McAfee icon in the taskbar, and close the program. Check the Windows system tray carefully to make sure that no applications of the McAfee is still running in memory.
Step 3: Run Perfect Uninstaller. Double-click the right McAfee application in the list to open the uninstall wizard. Follow its instructions to complete the removal process.
Step 4: After rebooting McAfee should be removed from your system.

How to Uninstall AVG

admin — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:57:25 +0000

After installing AVG Free Antivirus, for some reasons you may need to uninstal it and reinstall it or just install another antivirus. Perfect Uninstaller provides three solutions to help you easily uninstall AVG Free Antivirus.

Solution 1: Normal Uninstall

The first thing you want to try is to use the normal uninstall function to remove AVG from your computer. This is the safest solution to uninstall it. Follow the directions below to accomplish this.

Step 1: Right click on the AVG icon in your tray and click on exit.

Step 2: Run Perfect Uninstaller. Click here if you don’t have one.
Step 3: Find AVG in the application list and double-click on it.

Step 4: Click Next In the new pop-up window and follow the uninstall wizard instructions to proceed the removal.
Step 5: Once the uninstall has completed, reboot your computer.

Solution 2: Force Uninstall

If the normal uninstall fails and you know exactly where the AVG was installed, you can try Force Uninstall function to make a clean remove of AVG.

Step 1: Shut AVG antivirus down before uninstalling is also required.
Step 2: Run Perfect Uninstaller and click on Force Uninstall as below.

Step 3: Find the exact AVG file or/and its installation directory to make a force uninstall. For example, click the button next to the “Scanning program path” box and locate the installed folder as below.

Step 4: Click Next and follow instructions to proceed the removal.
Step 5: Once the uninstall has completed, reboot your computer.

Solution 3: Special Uninstall

Three versions of AVG have been added into Perfect Uninstaller’s Special Uninstall list and can be easily uninstalled with no traces left. The AVG listed are AVG Anti-Virus V7.1, AVG Anti-Virus V7.5, and AVG Anti-Virus V8.0. But we recommend you try normal uninstall first for a safer removal.

Step 1: Close the running AVG Antivirus is required.
Step 2: Run Perfect Uninstaller and click Special Uninstall like this.

Step 3: Locate AVG in the application list and click on it. You should ensure of the version you have installed in order to uninstall the right AVG free because there are three versions of AVG in the list.

Step 4: Click Next In the new pop-up window and follow the uninstall wizard instructions to proceed the removal.
Step 5: Once the uninstall has completed, reboot your computer.

How to Uninstall Windows Desktop Search

admin — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:55:21 +0000

Windows Desktop Search is a desktop search tool that can perform instant search on user’s computer to find and preview documents, e-mail messages, music files, photos, and other items. But some people still want to uninstall it since it slows the computer with constant indexing. Here are the SIMPLE instructions to REMOVE Windows Desktop Search. Download Perfect Uninstaller before reading the following instructions.

Uninstall Windows Desktop Search 3

Step 1: Open Perfect Uninstaller, and then click Windows Desktop Search 3.01 in the application list as follow.

Step 2: Click Uninstall to open a prompt.
Step 3: Follow the uninstall wizard instructons and click a few “Next” to complete the uninstallation process.
Step 4: Restart your computer to completely uninstall Windows Desktop Search 3

Uninstall Windows Search 4.0

Step 1: Open Perfect Uninstaller, and then click Windows Search 4.0 in the application list as below.

How to Uninstall Norton or Symantec product

admin — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:14:01 +0000

The easiest way to uninstall Norton or Symantec product is using Perfect Uninstaller. This smart tool will save you hours of time trying to do a manual uninstall such as finding leftover files or editing the registry. In order to completely uninstall Norton or Symantec product and all related components you need to follow these instructions.

Solution 1: Use standard uninstall function to remove Symantec.

Step 1: Boot your PC in safe mode, don’t know how to? Click here.
Step 2: Run Perfect Uninstaller. Click here if you don’t have one.
Step 3: Find the Symantec product you want to uninstall in the applicaton list of the main panel. Select it and click on the Uninstall button at the bottom of the window.
Step 4: Click Next and follow a few onscreen instructions to complete two or three steps.
Step 5: Restarting your computer is required to complete removal.

Solution 2: If the standard uninstall function failed, your Anti-Virus installation may be damaged. You can use Force Uninstall instead to completely remove all elements of Symantec product from your computer.

Step 1: Getting into safe mode is required, too.
Step 2: Run Perfect Uninstaller and click Force Uninstall at the top of the main panel to open Force Uninstall Wizard.
Step 3: Locate the program and/or its installed directory to make a Force Uninstall. Usually Symantec products are installed in the following folders:
C:\Program Files\Norton XXX
C:\Program Files\Symantec
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared
Step 4: Click Next and follow a few onscreen instructions to complete two or three steps.
Step 5: Restarting your computer is required to complete removal.

How to Uninstall Internet Explorer and Other Unwanted Programes

admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:48:55 +0000

How to uninstall or remove internet explorer, media player 10 beta, McAfee, Norton and other unwanted programes completely? There are three ways to fix your uninstall problems. With these three ways, I am sure all of your uninstall problems can be fixed.

The first, quickest and easiest way is to run the uninstall programe of the unwanted software. Many user friendly software such like QuickTime can be uninstalled completely by running its own uninstall programe. To do this, first click “start”, then click “programe” and you will see the unwanted software, click it and then click ” uninstall programe”. The software will be uninstalled automaticly.

There are lots of programes can’t be uninstalled by this way and some softwares don’t have uninstall programes at all.

The second way: uninstall unwanted programes with Window’s add/remove programe. To do this, first go to Windows Control Panel, select an option called “Add/Remove Programs”, double click to open it and then remove your unwanted programe. With this way, you may get a message that the uninstall has been successful but in fact there are some files unremoved in your PC. You can search related files and folders in your PC and delete them all.

There are still some non-essential system programes and third party promgrames such like Windows MediaPlayer, Outlook Express, MSN, Norton Antivirus and more can’t be uninstalled by these two ways. At this point, if you are not a professional computer engineer, you’d better uninstall or remove them by professional commercial uninstall software ( the third way ). With excellent commercial uninstall software, you can uninstall/remove all unwanted programes safely, easily, quickly and completely.