a clean uninstall (registry keys to remove)
Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2014 2:57 pm
Having installed and uninstalled TP 4 and 6 several times (and once TP7) in a vain effort to make different versions play well together -- never, I might add, in the default install folder--, I am left with a registry full enough of conflicting TextPad stuff that no version will now work corectly. I can no longer associate file types with textpad, tp no longer appears on the list of installed apps or in the right-click context menu, and when it runs, it comes with a warning that it may be running in a way that requires admin privileges. (Windows 7/64.) I imagine this is because none of the uninstalls were true clean uninstalls -- they all left something behind, which I will need to clean out manually. At which point I can install one version and leave it at that.
*My question is: does anyone have a list of registry keys and values that need to be removed in order to do a total, clean uninstall? Especially, any keys that do not actually contain the searchable word "textpad". (My only experience with this sort of thing is manually removing McAfee, which required the manual removal of about 300 keys...; hoping TP is simpler than that!)
(My second question, which I'll save for another post, is whether there actually is a practical way to run multiple versions of TP simultaneously.)
pfs (Daily TP user for 18 years.)
*My question is: does anyone have a list of registry keys and values that need to be removed in order to do a total, clean uninstall? Especially, any keys that do not actually contain the searchable word "textpad". (My only experience with this sort of thing is manually removing McAfee, which required the manual removal of about 300 keys...; hoping TP is simpler than that!)
(My second question, which I'll save for another post, is whether there actually is a practical way to run multiple versions of TP simultaneously.)
pfs (Daily TP user for 18 years.)