Windows 7 Uninstall

[Gene Cryder]

HiFolks,

I am having problem with running 3D viewer on Fiji and after reading some of the topics in the Forum related to this problem, I have decided to uninstall Fiji from my laptop. Can anyone tell me the steps to take to perform this task (uninstall fiji)? I am running windows 10.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks for responding and the reference. I need to provide additional information. At the moment, one of the host computers associated with my microscope has ImageJ installed. This is the computer from our camera manufacturer yet, I do not know whom setup ImageJ. I noticed the installation was in this directory yet, needed to update from 1.48v. This was the result of the migration from http: to https: so, I have overcome this issue by being referred to this thread:

How do I uninstall dropbox from my desktop (windows 10) without losing any of my own files? I only installed it last week but I don't like it and I can't save files into my original folders. I find it very confusing and just want to get it off my computer. Any help gratefully received. Thanks Romy

Hey @Romyo, thanks for joining our Community and happy Friday!

If you made sure that the app has finished syncing and it's showing 'up to date' in your system tray, you can go ahead and uninstall it using these steps.

Your files won't be affected during that process and will remain in your Dropbox folder, which will be a local copy of your Dropbox files.

I hope this helps, Romy!

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I'm trying to uninstall Dropbox from my computer, and then delete files from my Dropbox account online. I've found a few forums that provide some instruction about deleting the dropbox folder from your computer without deleting your files, but I haven't been successful in trying to follow them. One of the forums suggested changing the location of the folder back to default using "Properties", but I can't seem to find that option on my computer. I use MacOS and would really like some help deleting dropbox from my computer and then also deleting files from my Dropbox account online. I don't want to try to delete things from my account online until I delete Dropbox from my hard drive, so I don't risk losing anything.

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I need to clear up space on my hard drive and I would like to remove ALL dropbox files. I can delete them but I'm concerned this will delete all files for my team. I'm no longer employed by them and have no need for their files. If I delete them, will my former team members still have access to the files?

I uninstalled my previous version of node.js (0.8.11) and downloaded the latest, 0.10.24 from the node.js website and installed it. However, after running node --version, it still indicates that I'm running v0.8.11. Obviously, some stuff was left behind during the uninstall process, and it's causing me to have all sorts of errors when trying to add modules through npm. I've seen solutions to this for OSX and Linux, but couldn't find anything for Windows. I'm running Windows 7 64-bit.

I ran into a problem where my version of NodeJS (0.10.26) could NOT be uninstalled nor removed, because Programs & Features in Windows 7 (aka Add/Remove Programs) had no record of my having installed NodeJS... so there was no option to remove it short of manually deleting registry keys and files.

I attempted to install the newest recommended version of NodeJS, but it failed at the end of the installation process and rolled back. Multiple versions of NodeJS also failed, and the installer likewise rolled them back as well. I could not upgrade NodeJS from the command line as I did not have SUDO installed.

SOLUTION: After spending several hours troubleshooting the problem, including upgrading NPM, I decided to reinstall the EXACT version of NodeJS on my system, over the top of the existing installation.

Now that Windows was aware of the forgotten NodeJS installation, I was able to uninstall my existing version of NodeJS completely. I then successfully installed the newest recommended release of NodeJS for the Windows platform (version 4.4.5 as of this writing) without a roll-back initiating.

In my case, the above alone didn't work. I had installed and uninstalled several versions of nodejs to fix this error: npm in windows Error: EISDIR, read at Error (native) that I kept getting on any npm command I tried to run, including getting the npm version with: npm -v.

If by mistake you tried uninstalling through cli (it will not remove completely most often), then you do not get the uninstall option in the control panel. In this case, install the same version of node and then follow step 1.

If you read anything about how the Windows installer system works, it's obvious they applied some ideas from transactional databases to program installation and maintenance, not to mention the .msi files themselves are a database.

There is always the question in designing any database - do you want speed or accuracy/safety? Given that installers can modify system configuration and that a mishap could render the system inoperable, safety has been given a priority over speed. One of the reasons why .msi installers are so slow is because rollback files are made for each file, etc. that will be modified, and then deleted afterwards - allowing any changes to be "rolled back" if something goes wrong in the middle of things (such as a power outage or system crash).

Now, I believe the MSI engine itself enforces installing, modifying, or removing only one program at a time - if you try to run an .msi while another is uninstalling, for example, it either won't run or will wait for the currently running uninstall to finish. Non-MSI installers may not behave this way - since they don't use the MSI engine. But because of this safety design decision, this is probably why appwiz.cpl insists on only letting one uninstaller be called at once.

Most uninstallers track what they are changing so they can roll back successfully if there's a failure. If one isn't aware of all the changes being made (by other uninstallers) then it may actually make things WORSE if it tries to roll back a failed install.

Uninstallation tasks frequently modify files that are shared by multiple programs, or system files\the Registry (a partial reason for needing administrative power to do it). If multiple uninstall tasks ran at the same time, they could conflict. If you have ever had a run in with "DLL Hell", it would be the same. Other programs or Windows itself could be left in an inconsistent state.

Uninstalling programs simultaneously, besides having the potential problems other mentioned, have very little benefit: it won't be much faster than uninstalling the programs sequentially. Unintalling a program is a task involving disk IO. Running several programs that do IO isn't faster than running them sequentially (unless the programs are installed on two separate physical disks). In fact, it's likely to be slower because the two competing IO tasks will make the disk cache less efficient and the disk's physical heads will have to jump from place to place.

My problem now is how to rid my pc of all Ubuntu/Linux files or whatever you may call them. Trouble is I cannot see a partition in disc management or anything about Ubuntu. Once again Lady Luck has vomited on my eiderdown.

Open the Control Panel and go to Programs -> Turn Windows Features On or Off. Uncheck the Windows Subsystem for Linux option there and click OK. Windows will uninstall Windows Subsystem for Linux, bash.exe, and lxrun.exe commands.

EDIT: After deleting the contents of C:\Program Files\Docker and then downloading a fresh Docker MSI, then using the Remove option after it offers Repair or Remove, then finally reinstalling using that MSI, I was able to get around this issue and get the latest version of Docker installed.

Sorry for the delay. I tried to reproduce this bug without success, so I wrote a script that will be ship in the next version but as you cannot uninstall, I dump here the procedure so you can install the latest version.

Just a couple of issues with the powershell script above.

Had issues running with the -Destroy parameter but just evaluetd the functions direct to be able to invoike directly the destroy functions (Stop-MobyLinuxVM, Destroy-Switch, Destroy-MobyLinuxVM).

In your for loop you miss the (underscore) for the current object variable ($) might be related to the message board app. I see it is with the underscore in the ForceRemoveDocker.ps1 of the new release.

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