Can't uninstall

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Emanuel Vella

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Hello,

I would like to uninstall a yamaha softsynth because it is full of errors but I can't. When I try to uninstall it an icon appears:"Unable to locate the installation log file'C:\WINDOWS\DelsL1.isu'.Uninstallation will not continue."

Is there any help please ?

Thanks.
 
Can you find it in Explorer and just nuke it from there?

Can you reload it over the top and restore the file it says it can't find, and then uninstall?

It's us against machines. If we let them abuse us now, they'll take over the world tomorrow!

Good luck. The rest of us are counting on you! :D

BTW - welcome to the site.
 
Sounds like the program is corrupted.....

Usually the best course of action at this point is to reinstall the program from the original disks to un-corrupt it. If the setup program says the program is already installed, there may be an option to overwrite or fix the existing installation.

Then you should be able to uninstall it without any problems.

If this doesn't work, you can at least get rid of the Start menu entries by right-clicking on the Start button and selecting "Explore." Find the shortcut to the Yamaha synth program, right-click on it, and select "properties." This will tell you where the program is installed. Then you can delete the Start menu entries.

You can also get rid of the files in the installation directory. You may still have some leftover DLL files and orphaned registry entries, but you can live with that.....
 
eggplant said:
Sounds like the program is corrupted.....

Usually the best course of action at this point is to reinstall the program from the original disks to un-corrupt it. If the setup program says the program is already installed, there may be an option to overwrite or fix the existing installation.

Then you should be able to uninstall it without any problems.

If this doesn't work, you can at least get rid of the Start menu entries by right-clicking on the Start button and selecting "Explore." Find the shortcut to the Yamaha synth program, right-click on it, and select "properties." This will tell you where the program is installed. Then you can delete the Start menu entries.

You can also get rid of the files in the installation directory. You may still have some leftover DLL files and orphaned registry entries, but you can live with that.....
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I was going to say the same thing..... :D
 
Hello all, thanks for your help.

eggplant,

First thing is that I can't reinstall the program again because I really can't find the setup CD and I remember that when I enter it into the PC it occurs an error so let it go!!!

When you say "explor" do you mean by right-clicking on the Start button and selecting Search\for files or folders. Yes I have entered there as usual and it really worked, but now still I have a file left located at C:\Windows\system and when I try to delete it, an icon appears:"Cannot delete SXGTKBAR: The specified file is being used by Windows".

And this file it seems that always gave me trouble when I start my PC. The problem is if it shows up (below at the right corner) all the programs works fine but if it didn't almost all the programs can't be open. And I don't know why sometimes it shows up and sometimes not. I really really want to kill it.
 
I usually wind up wiping my drive twice a year or so when I run into problematic files that I can't get rid of.

Sometimes I can rename a file and then delete it. Are there sub-files that you can delete one by one?

I don't know if your problem is that extreme, but if you can't get any help deleting the file I'll walk you through reloading your drive.

Good luck.
 
If I were you stop deleting stuff and re-access your problem. Are you short on memory? If not then I suggest leave things as they are. If you are short then you should go buy some, it's real cheap these days. You are not going to recover enuff memory by deleting this program to make any big difference and deleting files could get you in trouble because alot of files that your program used were windows files that have multiple applications. Deleting things could be what corrupted your program to begin with. Don't worry about the xgtkbar.exe file, it refers most likely to a taskbar application created by
a your sound software.
 
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