Chapter 9. Software Troubles

This Chapter Is for You If...

• Your programs and applications are giving you a headache.

• Software from Windows XP just doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to.

• There’s nothing wrong with a device or peripheral, but it’s not working the way it should.

• Your system was fine yesterday and now it’s not.

What You’ll Learn

In this chapter, I’ll show you:

• How to update or roll back a driver

• How to reverse a software installation gone wrong

• How to manually uninstall a program

• How to remove or fix buggy software

• How to roll back your system to the way it was before something went wrong

• How to fix your email program

• How to wrangle Internet Explorer 7 into submission

Bad Software! Sit. Stay.

Dealing with ...

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