Hope y'all can help me out with some additional ideas on how to completely uninstall win desktop search. When I attempt to uninstall I get error: "Update could not be removed because newer updates are installed.
Please remove the newer updates first. I don't want to have to pick files I think might be related and try to hit and miss uninstall one by one just to find it. I'm tired of things like this eating up sys resources and items that auto boot with Win but are next to near impossible to find and disable. I've tried to use Sys Mech Pro 7 to uninstall progs that don't show up in the Add Remove Programs list and the last time it just locked up.
However the trial version has limited function and I'm not sure that it can help to uninstall programs completely or if selecting remove will simply remove that one component only and leave the rest of the program files lying around taking up space. Trying out Karen's Registry Pruner. How to remove Windows Desktop Search? Which version of WDS do you have installed?
Are you on XP or Vista? I have uninstalled WDS 3 times using various means. I have blocked it on the list of Windows updates, and I have used Autoruns to block its execution. Nothing I've done will permanently remove it or prevent its execution. This program is so persistent it's difficult NOT to think of it in terms of malware.
I know there are well-meaning folks working on this project. I understand their desire to compete directly with Google for mindshare, but this is NOT the way to do it. I am embarrassed for Microsoft that they have allowed this type of thing to go on. Windows Search 4 is an optional update on XP, as far as I know it isn't installed unless you explicitly approve it in Windows Update, or you previously had Windows Desktop Search 3 installed. I'm not an expert on the full Windows Update system but I just took a clean XP machine and double-checked, and Windows Search 4 is not installed automatically.
This is what makes it so tricky for us to diagnose the issue where some people are not seeing the uninstaller - we have installed and uninstalled WS4 thousands and thousands of times on XP while testing and using the product in Microsoft, and have never seen this issue. This will make the installer believe no Windows Search 4 is on the system. Most people who have had trouble uninstalling Windows Search have been able to do so using the above, although there are other threads on these forums with other approaches.
I found the uninstaller spuninst. However, it has been gone before and it come back. Only time will tell if this fix is permanent. I really appreciate your followup and detailed response. It has been extremely frustrating. Cool - let me know if you still have issues. So if there is an uninstaller at that location I would try running it too. Guess what showed up again this morning So I did some digging, and I have to admit the mistake was mine.
Although I have auto-updates is turned off, and our patch management program not MS is configured to block the distribution of WDS via policy, my machine was NOT under any patch management policy. And since my machine is not a member of any policy, I've been getting all patches, feature additions, etc. WDS kept coming back because my patch management program was doing its job exactly the way I had it configured.
Please accept my humble apology, and thanks again for your quick and detailed responses. They were extremely helpful. It also seems that this search feature does NOT do the job very well Even after modifying it to search for every file extension it has listed, it would not locate a file I know is in a folder it was searching in After uninstalling this piece of week old carp, I had twelve hits on my search with the legacy Windows search feature Following are my efforts to uninstall it, and then the reasons for trying to uninstall it.
Dave Wood please take notice. On one computer, the dialog panel flickered for a moment and the Windows Search 4 item was no longer shown in the list of programs. However, the garbage is still running and still causing problems. On the other computer, the uninstaller actually ran, giving a list of several dozen other programs that this malware was threatening to break, but I told it to uninstall itself anyway.
It almost obeyed. It didn't tell me that a reboot was necessary, but my experience with Microsoft is long enough, I could figure it out. The problem is still the first PC where Add and Remove Programs no longer displays this garbage but it's still running. There are directories to uninstall other later stuff, and I do display hidden and system files and the contents of system directories and protected system files and everything. This directory really doesn't exist, unless a rootkit is hiding it.
This piece of ship-it did reinstall itself. It's running and making a pest of itself the same as always. Of course that's not the right way to delete a program. But meanwhile, does anyone really know how to do it? Every 5 minutes it puts up a focus-stealing dialog. It tells me it can save disk space by reorganizing my Outlook Express folders. Even if 5 minutes earlier it already did save a negative amount of disk space i. If it steals focus while I'm typing from the keyboard, it might just steal keystrokes and ring a bell sound, or it might eat an Enter or Space keystroke and repeat its malicious operations.
The thing leaks resources. What resources, I don't know, but it causes trouble for both itself and other applications. When the thing has leaked some degree of resources, attempts to open further Internet Explorer windows either display corrupt non-functioning windows or display nothing at all. When it leaks more resources, Outlook Express cannot even reply to an e-mail message, asserting a false reason that there isn't enough memory. When it leaks enough resources it stops popping up focus stealing dialogs, and instead it makes a ringing sound like a doorbell every 10 seconds until I reboot.
What a monopolizing pain. Typically 1GB are in use at any time, and around 1GB are in use when Outlook Express can't reply to an e-mail message due to not having enough memory.
So memory is not the problem. Both PCs have several tens of gigabytes of free disk space as well. One PC has a few gigabytes of e-mail but the other has less than one gigabyte of e-mail stored in their Outlook Express identities directories.
Try to search for a computer. That's right, virtually the only search function that ever used to work has now been removed from Windows. The context menu entry hasn't been removed, only the functionality has been removed.
Use google to locate and download the installer from Microsoft's server. EXE is the installer. INF file in this same folder contains all of the install instructions.
The trick to uninstall this app is to launch the uninstaller spuninst. INF file. Safely ignore the warning that removing this KB may impact other apps. Rest assured; you are safe to uninstall Windows Desktop Search. It's a general warning but not applicable to this particular uninstall. That's it. CPL press enter -- and look for Windows Search 4. My problem was: 1.
Sometimes I wonder if MS is under instruction to intentionally cause millions of wasted man-hours. Removing the protected View in Office sorts some out, but other files on a fileshare are all marked as corrupt.
Opening up n another machine is fine. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums.
Answered by:. Archived Forums. Follow the remaining prompts. If you want to reinstall Office, select the steps for the version you want and follow those steps. Close the uninstall tool. Tip: If the Office uninstall tool doesn't completely uninstall Office from your PC, you can try to manually uninstall Office. Note: If you installed an Office suite such as Office Home and Student or you have an Office subscription, search for the suite name. If you bought an individual Office application, such as Word or Visio, search for the application name.
Tip: If you can't uninstall your Microsoft Store installation using Settings in Windows 10, then try to uninstall Office manually using PowerShell following the steps below. If only a command prompt appears and no additional information, it means you successfully removed Office and you can close the Windows PowerShell window. Note: If you're not sure what operating system you have, see Which Windows operating system am I running? Table of contents.
Office install. How to install Office. Redeem or activate. Office product keys. Activate Office. Install other apps. Set up mobile devices. Office updates. Upgrade to the latest version.
Troubleshoot and uninstall. Expand this section if you're not sure which installation type you have. Open an Office app to check your installation type Note: If you can't open an app to check your installation type, try the more common Click-to-Run or MSI uninstall steps first. Open the Control Panel. Windows 10 In the search box on the task bar, type control panel , then select Control Panel.
Windows 8. Option 2 - Completely uninstall Office with the uninstall support tool. Select the button below to download the Office uninstall support tool. This takes a few minutes. Once it's done, a new command prompt appears. Need more help? Join the discussion. Was this information helpful?
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