Uninstalling MSN v7 beta

From: Doug P (P_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/25/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:33:01 -0800

Johnathan, a longish question for you...

My daughter is not able to completely uninstall the beta, and therefore can
not install any of the earlier versions either.

There is a note that SP2 makes changes that prevent you from uninstalling
MSN v7.2 in this knowledge base article (its a long article..faster if you
search the string "msn")
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;886264

I also read in another thread your advice which applies to an earlier version
<quote>
Greetings Joshua,
You can completely remove Windows Messenger (4.7) but if you do, you will be
preventing
Remote Assistance, Whiteboard, and Application Sharing from working.
However, if you don't use this functionality that would be disabled by
removing Messenger,
you can simply remove it by closing down Messenger if it's running (right
click the messenger
icon in the notification area/system tray and click close). Then click the
start button,
then click Run and type in (copy-paste if you like):
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

Then click OK.
Messenger will then be uninstalled. For more detailed instructions and
screenshots, go to,
http://messenger.jonathankay.com/problem.aspx?ID=7
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay

<end quote>
Can you modify it to nuke the Beta ?
I not...
I also found the following suggestion on another website:
<quote>
For a perfect clean install of MSN Messenger 7 BETA Follow these steps

1) Click Start > Run
2) Type msiexec /unreg and press enter and wait until it appears to have
finished.
3) Go back to Start > Run
4) Type msiexec /regserver and press enter.
5) Uninstall MSN Messenger
6) Click Here http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/6...84ff2/setup.exe
7) install it!
8) download another thing on this link (if you want to use the handwriting
feature) : http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/0...B886179_ENU.exe
9) install it!
10) Restart PC .

THANK You

Microsoft® Beta Testing Team
<end quote>

I couldn't find this posted anywhere on the MS support site, so being
suspicious, would like a second opinion on this as well.

Doug P