Uninstall program

[seanmark2]

Hi
Can anyone tell me how to uninstall a program. Ever since I got this XP in Feb 2003 at the start this program is the first thing to come on. I have gone to the Control Panel for add and remove but that does not remove it. When I get to the end of remove it says Freedom is curerntly running. Please shutdown Freedom and click OK to continue. I shut it down before I opened the Control Panel and don't know how to shut it down now without removing everything.
Seanmark

[Brainchild]

Can you remove it in safe mode???

[JPMiller]

with XP you click "start", "run", and type "msconfig"
in new window, click on "general" tab and choose "diagnostic startup" , click "aplly" and then "OK"....Reboot and only the basic drivers and programs will load...sorta like "SafeMode"

[Droppyale]

or get something like "Code Starter"

http://codestuff.tripod.com/news.shtml

Which let's you enable or disable startup programs...

[NeoStarO1]

Don't need anything like code starter with XP.

Make sure the services for that program is not running.

go to control panel / administrative tools / and look for your Freedom thing to make sure its not set to enable for it to automatically start at the loading of the OS.

Also go to

run / type in "msconfig" without the quotes
go to the start up tab
look for your freedom thingy and deselect it from the start up menus. this is also a good time to take other things out of start up that you know you do not want in start up.

then reboot.


There is another trick to viewing stuff that doesn't show up in add/remove programs but I will not recommend it unless you are comfortable with modifing system files. its not always a garentee that it will be there either.

[sm8000]

Have you tried running Ad-Aware or Spybot?

http://www.lavasoftusa.com

http://security.kolla.de

Update them first. Don't delete everything Spybot picks up, only things that you can tell are adware/spyware.

[seanmark2]

Hi
Thanks for all the info. I've got the problem fixed thanks to all you knowledgable people.
Seanmark

[NeoStarO1]

Hi Sean,

could you please tell the folks here what method you used to fix your problems? It helps for other people that come to the boards later doing a search on specific problems.

thanks.

glad all is godo now.

[seanmark2]

Hi
To solve my problem I used run/type in "msconfig" without quotes go to start tab and I found Freedom and I said deselect and it worked fine. Thanks to all of you who responded especially you NeoStar 01 for your help.
Seanmark