Re: Error when uninstalling Legos Star Wars Video Game Screensaver


"P Frymier" <PFrymier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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(Note: cross posted to "Help and Support")

My son installed from somewhere the Legos Star Wars Video Game Screen
Saver.
It shows up in both the list of programs in the "Add/Remove Programs"
control panel dialog and also as an option in the "ScreenSaver" tab of the
"Display"
control panel. In the "Add/Remove Programs" control panel, it says it is
occupying over 800 MB of space. If I try to either select it from the
"Display" control panel as the active screen saver or remove it with the
"Add/Remove Programs" control panel, a dialog box pops up that basically
says
"Error: swflash.ocx not found" or some perturbation of that. There is
such a
file on the computer, but don't remember where.

I'd like to get rid of this program because it doesn't work and it is
consuming a lot of disk space. However, I am stymied by the above error.
Does anyone have any idea how to remove this? I don't know where files
associated with screen savers are kept so can't manually trash them and
would
prefer to do an uninstall to get rid of registry entries, etc.

Thanks in advance.


Normally screensavers are stored in the windows directory ususally in .bmp
format.
I would do a quick search in the windows directory first, if that fails do a
complete search by using start/search/all files and folders, and put lego in
the search box.
Failing that, try a system restore.
hope this helps
Gandalff the Wizard
MCDST, MCSA, MCSE, MCPD, CCNA


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