Search program won't remove

[SD_Ryoko]

Theres a search program installed on my freinds computer. I've removed everything bad with Hijack, and ad-aware.

I dont see the program anywhere on his drive, or in his registry. But when I go to add/remove programs, ITS THERE.

Now, I'm really getting pissed off, because when you click 'REMOVE' it takes you to their bs website instead of removing it. Just a bunch of advertisement.

I can't get windows to remove it. Why the hell did they design windows to allow that? Why doesn't it remove it either? How do I FORCE windows to remove the program?

 

[sqrage]

find its directory, go into safe mode, delete the directory, then in safe mode scan anddelete what it finds

 

[Wargasm]

in preventing such stuff might wanna try out microsoft's anti spyware program .

 

[Dtere]

I like to find bypasses to my problems instead of fixing them. Then eventually i will reformat the computer. So here's one of the easiest and best bypasses i have found, if you can't delete a program that is bothering you.

Go to start > run > type 'msconfig', go to the startup tab, and deselect the program you do not want to boot up. Your computer will go into diagnostic startup, but that really doesn't bother anything.

 

[Mark YBARBO]

dos

go into a dos prompt and deltree its ass our rename it

 

[Sud]

Deltreeing/msconfigging/cadding won't do squat, it's stuck in his add remove programs list.

You're going to have to hunt through your registry and manually nuke the entries for it.

Name of the program please? I'm sure some of the anti-spy sites should have the entries you need.

 

[Darg]

Removing Invalid Entries in the Add/Remove Programs Tool:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310750&Product=winxp