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How to uninstall applications after drive letters changed?

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Name: Lonnie
Date: June 18, 2000 at 21:22:43 Pacific
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My computer is being spooked by a change in drive letters.

Two weeks ago I brought my computer to CompuUSA second hard drive installed. The old drive has two partitions and although they copied over the old C drive onto the new C drive they were unable to copy over the old D drive.

My problems relate to this old D drive which is now the G drive (not my choice of letters). Every time I access the applications on this G drive there's a glich. One example of this is with Microsoft Office. The first time I used the help menu for Word it started looking for it on the old D drive instead of the new relabeled drive. I could give many other examples but I'm trying to keep this short and simple.

My ultimate goal was to have Microsoft Office on the new C drive anyway so I've decided that the "purest" way to fix any current or future problems is to uninstall Microsoft Office from the G Drive and reinstall it on the C drive. Although this sounds like a simple process, I'm wondering if the uninstall process will have its' own problems. In other words is it going to start looking for files, the registry, etc. on the old D drive and they are not going to be there?

Are my suspicions warranted? I'd like this to be as clean an uninstall as possible. Thanks for any insight available.



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Name: AL U
Date: June 18, 2000 at 22:29:31 Pacific
Reply:

Rename your G drive to D drive and run uninstall.


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Name: TheGorx
Date: June 19, 2000 at 02:16:59 Pacific
Reply:

This is your Registry
It has all this information

The best thing would be to just move all the Folder/Files that the registry thinks are on the D:\ Drive to the New D:\ drive.

If you can't do this then you could try moving alitte at a time to uninstall.

You could try editing your Registry to change where it look for these program but that can just be a pain.

You could just delete these programs then get a program that looks for orphan registry listings.
I'd suggest getting such a program for cleaning up your registry anyway.

http://www.geocities.com/thegorx/Windows/Help/Registry.htm


TheGorx
http://www.geocities.com/thegorx/Windows/index.htm


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