As a further note, sometimes in control panel, add/remove programs,
you will have programs that cannot be uninstalled.
To see these:
Run the Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE).
Open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft� 92;Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
These are the entries that show up under add remove programs.
Click on each key under uninstall to see what it contains.
On the right hand side, there will be a "DisplayName" that shows up in the control panel,
and a "UninstallString" - this is the program that is run to do the uninstalling.
Many times the program will not run, or an uninstall may have halfway completed.
You can go and look for the program/directory shown in the UninstallString,
if it is obviously where the program installed, you can delete the entire folder.
To delete an entry from the registry, just click the key on the left and press the
delete button. It will then no longer appear in add/remove programs.
Note, that this is not a good way of uninstalling programs, and should only be used
to delete crap from your system that you want gone and cannot otherwise get rid
of. With the registry, if you delete the wrong key, bad things can happen. always
look to the left to see which folder is open before deleting.