Re: Installed programs not totally removed

Only way to be absolutely sure is to format the drive and reload.

Evils Dark wrote:

It dawned on me recently that not all programs uninstall completely (no surprise there I guess) when using Add/Remove Programs or the program's uninstaller. An example is the Web Games you download that has a certain number of minutes to play. When I uninstalled and re-installed it, it still told me my time was up. Poor example I know, but the program definetly left a file or something behind. How can I know for certain that every part of a program has been completly removed?

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