Windows – How best to manually uninstall a program in windows 7/vista

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I have a program whose uninstall program is giving me grief, it has an error partway through uninstall, stops and rolls back.

I would like to uninstall this product manually so what is the best way to go about doing this?

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Revo Uninstaller is your best bet

With its advanced and fast algorithm, Revo Uninstaller analyzes an application's data before uninstall and scans after you uninstall an application. After the program's regular uninstaller runs, you can remove additional unnecessary files, folders and registry keys that are usually left over on your computer. Even if you have a broken installation, Revo Uninstaller scans for an application's data on your hard disk drives and in the Windows registry and shows all found files, folders and registry keys so you can delete them.

Completely uninstalls the program, and if it cant deletes all registry entries and files associated with that program

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It is generally a very safe operation, but if it fails, it will do a very good job of rolling it back to where you started all by itself.

Once a service pack is installed, if you decide to uninstall it, you would just do that in "Programs and Features", the way you would uninstall any update.

That said, to guarantee successfully (un)install, Microsoft has developed the "System Update Readiness Tool". If you want to improve your odds that it will install without error, run this tool. It can take anywhere from 15 minutes to 2 or more hours to complete, but it will fix underlying problems that you will never find on your own.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947821

As always, to be sure, you should have an image of the computer.

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From: https://netbeans.org/community/releases/65/install.html#troubleshooting

About the Installer Working Directory

The installer stores data about installation sessions in the installer working directory. Examples of this data are the list of components installed on your system, installation log messages, and registry data.

The default location for the installer working directory is %USERPROFILE%.nbi on Windows and ~/.nbi on other platforms. The log subdirectory contains the installation log files.

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After incomplete or unsuccessful installations, you might need to clean up your system from previous installations.

For Microsoft Windows, Solaris OS, and Linux:

Delete the installer working directory.
Delete the installation directories of the IDE and the GlassFish application server.
On the Windows platform, delete all nbi* registry entries from the following registry keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

For Mac OS X:

Drag the program folders or files to the Trash.

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