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Millenium_edition
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O.P. Uninstaller suggestions
Would it be possible to improve the uninstaller so that it terminates msgplus.exe and then deletes the files =/ ? I hate it to restart my system and i certainely hate it having entries removed in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run ...
08-16-2004 05:20 PM
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RE: Uninstaller suggestions
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hate it to restart my system
Me too, but i guess you restart your computer sometime? Mine runs 2 weeks straight sometimes, then i reboot and Plus! will remove it's files. That the files stay there for like 2 weeks doesn't hurt anything. The reason that files aren't deleted before a reboot is to avoid problems that are possibly still in use by other programs/plugins.

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hate it having entries removed in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
As far as i know it only removes it's own entry there, which makes perfect sense.

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08-16-2004 06:06 PM
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O.P. RE: Uninstaller suggestions
it did remove all of them on my system.
08-16-2004 06:39 PM
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Well, Plus! tries to delete everything it can but because of the nature of global hooking, I can never be sure that some files aren't locked, even if Messenger is not running anymore. However, the uninstaller does uninstall everything else so appart from a couple of "dead" files that will be deleted at the next startup, everything else is gone, which means that you really don't need o restart immediately except if you need the extra 2Mb of space :p.
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08-17-2004 05:02 PM
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it's just annoying especially if you're going for a reinstall or something =/
08-17-2004 06:30 PM
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Well, if you're going to reinstall Plus!, don't worry about it, it will work just as fine. Files that are locked will be bypassed by creating new ones with altered names.
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