I have no idea which place to put this so I’ll put it here since it is a fairly general question. If there are any tech type people here — HELP.
I recently downloaded and installed a free office type suite called 602Pro PC SUITE 2000. It has a word processor, a spreadsheet and a photo editor all included. It is a nice program, considering that it is free. However. It has “taken over” my pc. I tried to uninstall it both in add/remove programs and with Nortons. In both cases, it left a lot of files on my pc, which is where the problems lie. I can’t open any file that is/was associated with 602. I tried holding down the shift key and right clicking the object to change file associations. There was no such option. (also tried the control and alt keys, also no help)
My question is, how can I completely uninstall this program and get the correct file associations back for my documents, pictures, etc? If it wasn’t for this major problem, I would just leave the “loose ends” on the computer, since they probably wouldn’t cause much problem, but, I can’t. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
Open Windows Explorer. Select View, Folder Options, File Types. There you can set all of your file associations. It might be easiest for you to find your particular file type, highlight it, then select Remove. Once you close this dialog and try to open that type of file again, Windows will prompt you for the application to associate it with in the future.
I assume that you have already looked at the Add/Remove Software applet in the Control Panel, and ran the Uninstall option (if it existed).
You may need to delve into the Registry. In the \WINDOWS folder, there is a small file called REGEDIT.EXE, which you can use to hunt down and delete “keys” to various installed software components.
REGEDIT has a Find option which will hunt down matching links within the Registry. I usually use the name of the program for my first try, and the default file name extension of any data files it creates on my second effort (eg DOC, WPS, DXR etc). Once you are finished, then run RegClean if you have a copy.
To be absolutely safe, it would be wise to learn how to back up your Registry files before you start.
It sounds like it’s worth about as much as you paid for it.
When you say that you can’t open any file that was/is associated with 602, I assume you mean files you made or edited with it can’t be opened and edited by other similar programs. It could very well be because they use a proprietary method just so that you need their software to work with any files that you originally created with their software; Word and Wordperfect don’t open everything. Sooner or later someone somewhere will figure out how to convert it to something Word or Wordperfect can use but in the mean time welcome to the “Intelligent Network” age. - MC
If, in fact, it was a joke,then I appologize. However the way I read “Anybody else suspicious of this guy?” plus the analogy that followed, sure sounded like I was being called a liar or something. I didn’t see anything funny about it. And then, after I showed the link where to find the “hoax” I get a WHOOOOSH! which I took to mean “go away troll”. I am not a troll or a sock puppet or whatever else.
Maybe I’m just overly sensitive about stuff like that, I don’t know.
I tend to look for the least complicated solutions. I’ve had problems with this, too. In order to get the “Open with…” option, the file must be highlighted - then do the shift-right click. If you shift-right click on a nonhighlighted file, it won’t work. So left click on it once, then shift-right click.
