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How to Uninstall without Uninstall?

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by dkline, 2003/05/14.

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  1. 2003/05/14
    dkline

    dkline Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi Folks,

    I'm running XP home, and I need to install a WIA driver for my Canon digital camera. Unfortunately, the install program detects a previous TWAIN driver that it says must first be uninstalled (it probably got transfered to my XP machine when I migrated from a Win98 box). Anyway, when I try to uninstall the TWAIN driver, I get an error message saying "Unable to locate the installation log file Drive/directory/uninst.isu. Uninstallation will not continue. "

    Does anyone know how to get around that problem and uninstall the TWAIN driver via some other approach?

    Thanks for your help.
     
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    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    Dk...

    A possible solution - re-install the previous Twain driver - this should overwrite the existing files and generate an installation log. Then uninstall it and install the Canon driver.
     
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    dkline

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    Not a bad suggestion, PeteC. Thanks.

    I'd like to avoid doing that, but if nothing else works, I'll try that.
     
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    That suggestion is by far the safest.

    You can try manual rip & tear removal and it may do fine. Or not.
     
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