October 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1176 pages
27h 33m
English
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Uninstalling Programs
Unlike documents and other files, copying a program to your hard disk isn’t enough to make it usable. You have to install programs before you can use them. Likewise, simply deleting the startup icon for a program isn’t enough to remove the program from your system. You have to uninstall the program. These steps are necessary because a program often consists of many files. For example, Microsoft Office comprises hundreds of files! Furthermore, installing a program makes other changes to the system. Uninstalling is necessary to undo those changes.
Note
You must be logged in to an administrative account, or know the administrator password for your PC, to remove a program.
Before you remove (uninstall) any program, make sure you know what you’re removing and why. Just because you don’t know what a program is or what purpose it serves doesn’t mean you should remove it. Removing programs isn’t likely to solve any computer problems
Caution
There is no Undo or Recycle Bin for reinstating removed programs. The only way to get a removed program back is to reinstall it from its original installation CD or DVD, or to download it again from the original website.
With all those cautions out of the way, removing a program is quite simple. Windows 8 provides two methods for uninstalling programs. From the Start screen, right-click a program icon and choose Uninstall. Or, you can use the Programs And Features Control Panel applet. Assuming you’re already in ...
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