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 06:08 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When I didn't see anything I thought it must be a bug or that I must have a really out of date version, so I should delete all trace of it, and then it'd unregister itself when it couldn't find the "repair" msi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

[downlowder]

I have a similar problem on my friend's home theater PC, except he deleted all the Shark007 files from the the Program Files and Program Data folders on his C drive. I can't install a new version, as the software thinks the old version is still there. I can't open the old version to uninstall it, as the .exe file is gone. How would you recommend I completely get rid of the old version?

Thanks!

[Shark007]

download this microsoft program
Rightclick the downloaded Microsoft Program and choose 'Run as administrator' to install it.

After it is installed look on the startmenu | All Programs, and run the program named, Windows Install Clean Up...

It will show a list of installed programs, look for (All Users) Win7codecs (or Vista Codec Package)
click on that, and choose Remove

The above Microsoft Program breaks a registry key in Windows 7.... to fix that ...

you will have to take ownership of this registry key using regedit.exe (rightclick on the Components folder):
Change the owner to Administrators

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\​​​​​S-1-5-18\Components

There is a checkbox at the bottom of the advanced permissions window:
[x] Replace all child object permissions with inheritable permissions from this object
check that box

Then in the Owners view;
[x] Replace owner on subcontainers and objects
check that box

[downlowder]

(10-16-2010 01:41 PM)Shark007 Wrote:  download this microsoft program
Rightclick the downloaded Microsoft Program and choose 'Run as administrator' to install it.

After it is installed look on the startmenu | All Programs, and run the program named, Windows Install Clean Up...

It will show a list of installed programs, look for (All Users) Win7codecs (or Vista Codec Package)
click on that, and choose Remove

The above Microsoft Program breaks a registry key in Windows 7.... to fix that ...

you will have to take ownership of this registry key using regedit.exe (rightclick on the Components folder):
Change the owner to Administrators

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\​​​​​S-1-5-18\Components

There is a checkbox at the bottom of the advanced permissions window:
[x] Replace all child object permissions with inheritable permissions from this object
check that box

Then in the Owners view;
[x] Replace owner on subcontainers and objects
check that box

Thanks!

[pennship]

(10-16-2010 01:41 PM)Shark007 Wrote:  download this microsoft program
Rightclick the downloaded Microsoft Program and choose 'Run as administrator' to install it.

After it is installed look on the startmenu | All Programs, and run the program named, Windows Install Clean Up...

It will show a list of installed programs, look for (All Users) Win7codecs (or Vista Codec Package)
click on that, and choose Remove

The above Microsoft Program breaks a registry key in Windows 7.... to fix that ...

you will have to take ownership of this registry key using regedit.exe (rightclick on the Components folder):
Change the owner to Administrators

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\​​​​​S-1-5-18\Components

There is a checkbox at the bottom of the advanced permissions window:
[x] Replace all child object permissions with inheritable permissions from this object
check that box

Then in the Owners view;
[x] Replace owner on subcontainers and objects
check that box

Hi, thanks for the info so far since I've had the exact same problem, but it seems MS completely disabled msicuu2 in an update and have rendered it useless. Is there another program that I can use that is similar or such? Keep up the great work! Looking forward to reinstalling the latest version once I get this dud install fixed.

[Shark007]

(10-20-2010 01:42 AM)pennship Wrote:  it seems MS completely disabled msicuu2 in an update and have rendered it useless.

At this point, I suggest you format your hdd and clean install Windows 7

[pennship]

(10-20-2010 08:58 AM)Shark007 Wrote:  

(10-20-2010 01:42 AM)pennship Wrote:  it seems MS completely disabled msicuu2 in an update and have rendered it useless.

At this point, I suggest you format your hdd and clean install Windows 7

Cool, thanks! I just did that a month ago and Shark007 was one of the first things I reinstalled so it won't be a big problem.

[arif fakhrudin]

u'r link is not avaliable yet? how do islove my problems

[Shark007]

read and follow the 1st post