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Debbie-Leigh
September 18th, 2008, 05:19 PM
Hi,

I've just recently been re-building my windows machine and have encountered a problem with Tweakui freezing.

I have two versions of Tweakui from two different Powertoy packages. Unfortunately, this time, I forgot I had the newer version, so I installed the older version first, then when I remembered the newer version, I uninstalled the older one (or so I thought) before I installed the new one.

I then found out that the old one hadn't actually been uninstalled, as the control panel still points to it, whereas the new one is available via the start menu. When I try to uninstall the new one via add/remove programs, the uninstallation routine just sits there doing nothing too.

If I make a change to either of them now and try to save the changes, they freeze. The older one worked fine before I tried to do the swap.

Can anyone tell me how I can completely uninstall them both, so I can re-install just the new version without any clashes happening, please?

Debbie

PeejAvery
September 23rd, 2008, 09:44 AM
Microsoft published an article on manually removing older versions of TweakUI (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/tips/doug89.mspx).

Out of curiosity...How did you obtain an older copy? Microsoft hasn't updated the version on their site for over 3 years.