Critical updates

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Judy

I downloaded criticial software today NVIDIA display software update.

It messed up my settings

I want to delete it - how ???? Can anyone tell me where I can find it.
I've done a search.

Jood
 
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I downloaded criticial software today NVIDIA display software
update.

It messed up my settings

I want to delete it - how ???? Can anyone tell me where I can
find it. I've done a search.

Jood

use restoration system (except if you have win95 or 98)
 
Hi Judy,

The preferred and only method for such unwanted Installations is to
Un-install them. One does not "delete" installed updates, software, and the
like.

Look into add/remove programs from the control panel, and see if is in that
location. You may also try Start>programs>and see if there is a listing for
it in the programs list. If so, there may be an "Un-Install" feature for it.

You could try Start>Find>Files and Folders> program name> see if the
Un-Install is there.

Otherwise you may try a Scanregistry Restore (W98 and ME) to return to a
period before the installation was made.

How to Manually Restore the Windows 98/Me Registry
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;221512

Windows makes and stores a backup of the registry when you start your
computer successfully each day. By default, five previous copies or the
registry are stored. To restore one of these previous copies:

1) Start your computer, press and hold CTRL.

2) Choose Safe Mode Command Prompt Only from the Windows 98 Startup menu.
(If you are running Windows Me, start your computer with the startup
disk.)

3) At the MS-DOS prompt, type cd\windows\command, and then press ENTER.
Where windows is the name of the folder in which Windows is installed.

4) At the C: prompt, type scanreg /restore, and then press ENTER.

5) Select the previous registry you want to restore, and then press ENTER.
NOTE: A properly working registry has the word "Started" next to the
date.

6) When you receive notification that you restored a properly working
registry,
press ENTER to restart your computer.

HTH -
 
Judy,

Well why didn't you say so in the first place? We could have saved a lot of
time and trouble had we had this info first.

I don't know much about W2000 so you'll be on your own with this. See these
articles on system Restore. I believe W2000 is similar to XP in that they
use NTFS. So it may have a system restore in it like XP.

Try using your help files as one would in W98. Start>Help>type in your
question. Otherwise, two things:

1) MSKB articles about system restore (Since you are using OE as your
newsreader, you may be able to just click the link. If not, copy/paste into
your browser address window.)
http://support.microsoft.com/search...dType=ANY&maxResults=25&Titles=false&numDays=

2) Also: Making a good post
http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm



HTH -
 
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