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Re: Cannot get my programs back!
Posted by Ted Zieglar on September 24th, 2005


Something is not right here. A legitimate program's uninstaller is designed to remove only that program...it doesn't know how to remove any other program, and it wouldn't remove c:\program files because that's not what an uninstall routine does. So what really happened?

Ted Zieglar

<masonlubert@verizon.net> wrote in message news:1127528749.426845.242830@f14g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...
> During an uninstallation, I accidentally selected "C:\program files" to
> be uninstalled. So instead of uninstalling the pogram I had originally
> intended to uninstall, the uninstall program started uninstalling all
> the programs I had installed in C:\Program Files. I didn't realize my
> mistake until half of my installed programs were uninstalled and
> cancelled it. I tried to run system restore, but it would not open.
> Please HELP!
>


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