On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 04:33:10 -0700,
choucas@mailcity.com wrote:
>I have maybe 10 Programs that i can uninstall. These programs are the
>one i installed recently, or i found the DC and reinstalled them.
DC?
>Here are the list of Programs found that cannot be removed:
>Apple Software Update
Side-effect of iPod; may be "enabled" as per another post in this
thread, if it is a "mwedia player" thing.
>Acdsee 5.0 Powerpack
Options part of ACDSee; try the same fix
>Adobe Flash Player 9 ActiveX
ActiveX is managed via IE's Programs, Add-ins or similar, tho this may
disable rather than kill (try Disk Cleanup, DPF)
>BufferChm
>CustomerResearchQFolder
>D2300_Help
>DeviceManagementQFolder
>eSupportQfolder
>HP Photosmart Essential
>HP Software Update
>hph_readme
>hph_software_req
>HPPhotoSmartExpress
>HPProductAssistant
>HPSU306Stub
Dunno
>itunes
That should appear in Add/Remove?
>J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 4
So should that..
..
>Java 2 Runtime Environment, SE v1.42_10
....and that, which is a lethal hazard. Kill!
>Java 2 SDK, SE v1.4.2_10
>Macromedia Dreamweaver 6
>MarketResearch
Dunno those two...
DreamWeaver I'd expect to have an Add/Remove, unless:
- entry was deleted, e.g via TweakUI
- app was scraped-over, not installed
>Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003
>Microsoft Office Professional edition 2003
>QuickTime
As per DreamWeaver
>Solution Center
>speechsdk51
>Status
>Symantec Network Drivers Update
>Toolbox
>TrayApp
>Unload
>WebFldrs XP
>WebReg
>Windows Media Encoder 9 Series
As per "the fix"
>Please, i need your help!! The PC is very slow. I've run various anti-
>virus and anti-spyware, everything is fine!!!!!
>So, i think it's a problem related to the registry. But, WHAT?
Registry is rarely a speed impediment.
Firstly, about these installed apps:
- how are you "seeing" them?
- how were they installed?
I ask the first in relation to Java in particular, as I often see
leftovers from old Java lying around, as well as DPF stuff for
versions of Java that I haven't used (installed) on the PC.
Sun don't really "get" patching as MS do. Until 1.5.006 I think it
was, they still seemed to think we got new versions of apps because we
wanted cool new features, rather than because we dare not use the old
exploitable versions, and they'd keep the old versions "for
compatibility" (with what, malware that exploits them?).
They STILL do that, but what changed after 1.5.006 is that up to that
version, malware (or any sware) could ask for an old version, and
would be passed through to that (so could exploit it). NASTY. See...
http://cquirke.blogspot.com/2006/09/banking-on-java.html
....after a few PageDowns, unless you're interested in all of it
I ask "how were they installed" because some apps will work if just
"scraped over" and doing so will not populate Add/Remove.
Also, if an uninstallation from Add/Remove fails, the uninstaller will
often offer to remove the entry from Add/Remove. That's another way
to be left with an app and no Add/Remove entry.
On speed... oy, so many factors! First, compare these...
- Windows as normal
- as above, but disconnect all peripherals
- as above, but also kill all networking and wireless
- as above, also eject or disconnect all removable drives
- as above, with all startup entries disabled via MSConfig
- as above, with all non-MS services disabled via MSConfig
- as above, but F8 boot menu, use vanilla VGA
- F8 menu, Safe Mode
- F8 menu, Safe Mode Command Only
If bad all the way down to the end, check:
- CMOS Settings such as disabled cache, slow HD modes
- Windows IDE controller mode for HD; UDMA good, PIO bad
- physical HD for defects, e.g.
www.hdtune.com (retries)
- clear Temp, TIF, shrink TIF (IE cache) allocation to 20M
- ensure processor is not overheating into thermal protection
- ensure you have enough RAM (256M+)
- if < 512M RAM, kill RAM wasters such as fast user switching
- do not run multiple resident av at the same time
- make sure av is not scanning "the whole system" while you work
- exclude other (mis-)sheduled Tasks
- formally exclude malware; Google( Bart PE )
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