Saturday, January 16, 2010

Deleting hidden unwanted software (msn messenger 4.7)

One of the most annoying things about windows XP (if you're still using this OS) is those stupid programs you cant uninstall eg; MSN messenger 4.7 and outlook express. now these programs are pretty useless for most people, they just sit there and take up space, so after some searching on the net i found a way to finally  uninstall them:

  1. Find the text file at c:\windows\inf\sysoc.inf 
    • Go to Windows folder
    • Find the Inf folder inside that
    • Search for the sysoc.inf file
  2. Right click>edit
  3. Search for the word hide in the file and remove it. Do NOT remove any other text from the line.
  4. Now you can go to the Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel
  5. Select Add/Remove Windows Components and there you can find your unwanted software. Go ahead and Uninstall.

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