Uninstalled program still listed in Installed Programs

[7farmer]

Hi,

I recently installed and uninstalled a program. However, the entry for the program still remains in the Installed Programs list in the Control Panel. I have examined the Registry keys under uninstall and I cannot find this program listed there to be manually deleted. How do I remove this entry? Any advice is appreciated.

 

[badger906]

have you done a reboot since you uninstalled the program?
Only time ive had this happen, there has been remainders of the program in program files. Deleting them solved the issue for me.

out of interest what is the program? ill do some searching to see if this is a common issue.

 

[ambriel]

Have you tried uninstalling it again through the Control Panel? It can sometimes remove invalid entries itself.

 

[7farmer]

have you done a reboot since you uninstalled the program?
Only time ive had this happen, there has been remainders of the program in program files. Deleting them solved the issue for me.

out of interest what is the program? ill do some searching to see if this is a common issue.

I have removed all of the remainders of the program and rebooted. Now I have two ghost entries for the same thing. Strangely they are both listed as being nearly 4 TB, which is significantly larger than my hard drive.

The program is Quartus II v11 sp1 free web edition.

 

[7farmer]

Have you tried uninstalling it again through the Control Panel? It can sometimes remove invalid entries itself.

Yeah, I have right clicked and chosen "uninstall" a few times hoping it would go away. I just get an error message saying that the program wasn't found at <location>.

 

[serpentracer]

I found this jem, it's microsoft's installer cleanup utility. they used to have it on their site for removing botched office installs.
Download Windows Installer CleanUp Utility 2.5.0.1 Free - Remove Windows Installer configuration information on failed installs - Softpedia

you have to be really careful with it, it can remove anything on your computer. even windows stuff. which is why they don't don't put it on their tech site anymore I guess.

 

[alienfluke]

or you can use CCleaner to remove the entry from the add/remove programs list.

 

[serpentracer]

or you can use CCleaner to remove the entry from the add/remove programs list.

you have to be carefull with that crap stuff though. it can remove stuff in your registery you actually need.
since you don't have any control of what it picks out. I wouldn't recommend that kind of product.
besides, it doesn't say anything about removing programs from the control panel add/remove programs lists.

 

[7farmer]

I found this jem, it's microsoft's installer cleanup utility. they used to have it on their site for removing botched office installs.
Download Windows Installer CleanUp Utility 2.5.0.1 Free - Remove Windows Installer configuration information on failed installs - Softpedia

you have to be really careful with it, it can remove anything on your computer. even windows stuff. which is why they don't don't put it on their tech site anymore I guess.

The download links are all dead and I can't find this by Googling. Do you know of another source/site?

 

[serpentracer]

oh crap sorry about that.
what about this one
|MG| Windows Installer CleanUp Utility 7.2 Download

it gave me a odd error like something is wrong with it but it ran as administrator and it installed correctly for me. so I was your guinea pig lol.

 

[7farmer]

oh crap sorry about that.
what about this one
|MG| Windows Installer CleanUp Utility 7.2 Download

it gave me a odd error like something is wrong with it but it ran as administrator and it installed correctly for me. so I was your guinea pig lol.

Many thanks. However, when I run the program it doesn't find the "ghost" entries.

 

[serpentracer]

you could try to re install them and then use that clean up utility.

 

[zsxd45]

Hi,

I recently installed and uninstalled a program. However, the entry for the program still remains in the Installed Programs list in the Control Panel. I have examined the Registry keys under uninstall and I cannot find this program listed there to be manually deleted. How do I remove this entry? Any advice is appreciated.

Go to C:/

Go to Program files it should be listed there just delete it

Your welcome

Ps. i know you cant find it but it can be listed in a different "program files" depending on what os your on and if its 32 or 64 bit.

Or, go to the list of programs with the shortcuts, right click, properties and see where its pointed too, delete the directory?

 

[Brink]

Hi,

I recently installed and uninstalled a program. However, the entry for the program still remains in the Installed Programs list in the Control Panel. I have examined the Registry keys under uninstall and I cannot find this program listed there to be manually deleted. How do I remove this entry? Any advice is appreciated.

Hello 7farmer,

I'm not sure what method you used to try and remove the program's uninstall entry, but maybe this may be able to help you to do so.

Programs and Features - Remove Uninstall Entry - Vista Forums

Hope this helps,
Shawn