upgrade to Windows 7 - Cant uninstall Vista Codec Package

[Shark007]

On the Help TAB of the settings application choose to Modify the codec installation.
From that interface, you will see a Remove option.

[kestasjk]

(08-03-2009 09:08 PM)Shark007 Wrote:  On the Help TAB of the settings application choose to Modify the codec installation.
From that interface, you will see a Remove option.

I think the reason many are getting confused is that when you open the settings page for the first time in a while it'll advise you to update and take you to the download page, then close down.
Then Win7codecs_v257.exe explicitly tells the user to go to the control panel and uninstall the program from there (which is what you would usually expect)

When I didn't see anything I thought it must be a bug or that I must have a really out of date version, so I should delete all trace of it, and then it'd unregister itself when it couldn't find the "repair" msi

Turns out it didn't want to unregister, I googled and found that you're supposed to uninstall from within the settings page of the app itself.
Luckily the repair msi was still in the recycle bin, I restored it, repaired, started the old settings thing up (this time it didn't take me to the update page but let me through). Then I could uninstall it as above


I think the Win7codecs_v257.exe message to go Control panel>Uninstall should probably be changed, there could be some nasty accidents


edit: By the way this was just a normal update from an older version, I didn't see that this thread is for people updating from Vista