floppybootstomp said:
My goodness, calm down.
So I ignored your opening statement did I? Hmm. Fact is, I didn't actually know what you meant by 'got no help' I now realise you meant there were no links anywhere to uninstall the Logitech webcam software, either in that program's start menu or control panel. I also now know that the software is for a webcam and by looking at your profile I see you're using XP.
Actually it means that for some reason or another, it could not be uninstalled normally. It does not really matter why unless there is some specific reason for a helper to want to know why because he believes it a virus or something (which it isn't), but in this case it simply means that it would not uninstall. If the uninstaller had disappeared before I did this, I probably would have mentioned that, because, if so, it would indicate that there may be problems with the registry which are *not* my fault. Since the issue is avoiding a BSOD rather then trying to uninstall the software, it is not really relevant
whyit would not uninstall, so I did not post it. I didn't really have to say that at all, but if not it could easily attract some posts of "ZOMG U SHULDDNT DO DAT11" rather then posts attempting to help solve what (might) need to be fixed.
Let's just state I am no expert at all on all things software/Microsoft/Registry based. I've picked up some knowledge over the years but I am more a hardware kind of guy. But I do try and help. Where I can't help, or I'm not sure, I ignore the post.
Most of the forums I've been to recently have "staff", and you are supposed to assume they know everything all by themselves, and there will be no community posting and once one member posts about a solution, no one else will help. Obviously this is not a good thing, but they masses and masses of forums that do this made me come to expect this. I apologize for that.
I haven't got a clue how what you've done to the registry will affect Windows XP and I don't suppose you'll know until you boot. How else will you find out unless by starting?[/quote]
...Well, I could find out by posting topics on message boards and hoping someone will know what kind of registry entries involve xxxxx_Packagex86_xxxxxxx.xxx as the value, and would come as the only other entry in the same key as one related to the software that's related to a hardware.
Since most people who join tech support forums "as help" and have thousands of posts because they go around helping people, at least some of those people, know how to recognize keys and what they do. For example, some tweaks are memorized. Others know where certian components of software are located, and others know what certian things are called in the registry that is different then what they are called outside of it. It is actually pretty unlikely that there is no member on this board or the other two I have posted on so far that knows where in the registry might have one data with "value" of a file location and another with the "value" I listed. The only question is whether or not those people ('cause there will also likely be more then one) will both see my topic and post in it.
Safe mode? Boot from a live Linux OS which even then I don't think you access the registry simply by accessing the hard disk Windows is on.
If a registry edit causes a BSOD, it is either because the computer thinks there are hardware conflicts or because you deleted something that is literally needed to start the computer (either Windows or the computer itslef). You cannot access the registry through Linux because it is not files that you are looking for - well, they are stored in files but you have to be advanced to know how to read them, if it's possible at all. more advanced then me anyway.
^Most of this I found out when my laptop BSOD'd after a power outage and I had to run it from a Linux Live CD, but couldn't save anything.
So, perhaps that makes me incredibly stupid but hey, I can live with that, I'm comfortable with what I can do with some confidence.
No but if you're answering my question about what keys they might be one would assume you have a suggestion on what keys they might be (or else have a reason to believe that deleting them is not extraordinarily dangerous).
If you think I ACTUALLY called you stupid you probably misread something, but this board doesn't show previous posts while you are typing so I can't check on it (I've already re-opened this text box 4 times).
I did not edit your topic title, why the hell would I do that? The very rare time I do edit anything, including topic titles, is where sometimes a poster makes an obvious mistake, usually spelling, and I help them out on the sly by correcting it.
You are a moderator and the topic title is not as I typed it. That is why that section of my post is in the form of a question, so if there is anything in my post you are going to get angry/upset/offended/insulted by that seems like the least portion of it because that part was only talking to you if you DID do it! You are just a stranger so I do not know what you do or do not do. That means the board edits titles automatically.
Now look, like I said I'm no expert but I reckon you're going to have to boot the machine and see what you have.
If the computer restarts itself before someone knows what keys these may be then that is what will happen. I am not going to give myself an unsolvable BSOD though and a year of work "just for the hell of it to see whether or not it will happen."
In addition on the only board I had today besides this one, which has caused a few replies among other things, most everyone there is both ignorant and an asshole ("ignorant" in that they *do* refuse to read anything a topic actually says). In fact this tends to be true to some degree at any board with the structure I mentioned, as well as at the one board I have memorized that has a normal "posting structure". In other words I was not only annoyed before I got here, but also just expecting stupid and/or asshole behavior. So I apologize.
