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new to the board: tmo mda

Hey all, just recently purchased my tmo mda. Did some minor tweaks and it's running great. Just one question though. I recently installed wifi companion for the test trial. It worked really well, but decided to wait on the purchase and uninstalled the prog. Weird thing is, the wifi companion still works after the uninstall... Is there a way to clean uninstall? I did it through remove prog in settings.
Thnx
R

Hello chormda.
Welcome to the forum!
Unfortunately 'remove programs' is the only official way to uninstall something on a PPC. There are several utilities that do a better job but they need to be installed before you install the program so they can monitor the installation and record the changes.
Was wifi companion running when you tried to uninstall it? That might have prevented the system from deleting some files.
To my knowledge you now have two choices:
1. Manually fined all files still on the device and delete them (they could be under windows, windows\startup, or in program files\AppName.
You should also get a registry editor, search for any keys containing the app name and delete them.
2. Never tried it but it should work: reinstall the app, make sure its not running then uninstall again. If the files were not deleted because they were in use the first time this should solve the problem.
There is a third option but its quite inconvenient: Back up your data and hard reset the device. Its guaranteed to get reed of everything. :wink:
Good luck!

Removing programs from the phone

The problem I'm having is that when I go to settings > system > remove programs, it only lists the first 11 programs that I've installed myself, so I cant see / remove newer programs since they are not listed there.
The programs (all cab files) were installed through usb via active sync.
Is there a tweak or a registry setting that can be used to keep that program list updated and show every program installed.
If not, how can I uninstall a program completely from within my phone itself ?
I'm trying to avoid uninstalls through active sync.

I wish I had an answer for you. I have been looking for an Installation Monitor, Registry Monitor, Filesystem Monitor tool for a long time now but I don't think there is one out there. What an Installation Monitor essentially would do is monitor any cab that you install and create a log of what that cab added/modified. That way, when you come to uninstall it you could perform a FULL uninstall and it would truely bring your device back to what it was before you installed the cab.
There are many of these types of tools for Windows XP/Vista but I haven't seen anything for WM6. Also there may be some limitations as these installation logs could be quite long. Regular Windows software such as "Advanced Uninstaller Pro" and they seem to do a good job.
I wish there was one for WM6 because everytime I install something and don't like it and remove it, it seems to leave hundreds of files lying around. I hate that...
The closest thing I have seen to an uninstaller program that goes beyond the standard Windows uninstaller is SKTools. It has an option to perform a "deep scan" for installed programs and it attempts to remove all files that that cab added and revert all registry keys back to their original state. I am still testing it out on Windows Mobile Emulator. It looks like if the original cab didn't create an installation log, WM doesn't know it got installed.

I just experienced this for the first time myself, although I have about 20 programs in my remove programs list. Opera 8.65 doesn't show up in the list of installed programs, even though it is there and still works. I was trying to uninstall it from main memory and try it on the storage card but I guess I'll have to hard reset to really get rid of it. Any other ideas?

unable to remove non existing software

A couple of days ago I installed airscanner and with that came airscanner update package. I uninstalled airscanner first, and then tried to uninstall the other. Quote from uninstall software: "Airscanner updage package was not completely removed. Do you want to remove it from the list of installd programs" I answer "Yes" all the time..However, the Airscanner update package will not vanish from the uninstall list.
Is there any other way to get away from the list? I've tried using "pocket mechanic" but that software doesn't even show up there

iamregistered said:
A couple of days ago I installed airscanner and with that came airscanner update package. I uninstalled airscanner first, and then tried to uninstall the other. Quote from uninstall software: "Airscanner updage package was not completely removed. Do you want to remove it from the list of installd programs" I answer "Yes" all the time..However, the Airscanner update package will not vanish from the uninstall list.
Is there any other way to get away from the list? I've tried using "pocket mechanic" but that software doesn't even show up there
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Use File Explorer and delete the respective objects manually.

There's a good old M$ Windows way to solve problems like this...
Registry...

The problem is that the acctual software is gone. All the files! But it is stuck in the "normal" "remove programs"-list. The "remove program" asks if I want to remove it from the list, and it tries, but it is still there.

The installed app database is in the registry... delete corresponding entries manualy and you'll have no problems...

[Q] Remove apps that won't completely remove?

I have a few installed programs that I want to get completely off of my Vogue. When I go the the Remove Programs and remove them I get a notification that it wasn't completely removed and asks if I want to delete it from the list of installed programs. If I select Yes it will go away but come right back... I made sure they are not running and then using TotalCommander I searched and found/deleted all files I could find and also did the same in the registry with RegEdit. But all attempts to remove these apps fails, they will not go away! What to do next?? (Without doing a hard reset)

Try MemMaid -- http://www.dinarsoft.com/memmaid/

Try SK tools....its pretty effective. You can download a trial version and give it a go.

How do you remove a program that "cannot be removed"

I tried to install a different version of tomtom over an existing one and it did not remove the old program properly. It is still in the program list and when I try to remove it I get a message that it cannot be removed.
It means that I can't install any new TT at the moment and can't run the old one. Is there a way to find the leftover bits and get rid if them?

same difficulties here, but in my case is with the "dotcompt ZoomAdds v1.2" CAB.

Reinstall the software again
you will go through the same steps of installation BUT IN FACT IT IS REMOVING IT

Some soft may be difficult to remove.
In such case, the best is often to install the program again and try do disable it in the setting.
Then uninstall it again.
The best way to uninstall totally a soft is to use SK Tools.