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Frank, I'm assuming this was pre-Windows XP? I have found XP to be pretty foolproof at removing stuff through the add/remove programs control panel. Win98 was another, vastly inferior, situation. Believe it or not, I still have one computer in my world running that crapware. The very primative DAW at work, used only to transfer conference and interview cassettes, runs a stripped-to-the-bone version and has never had a second of problem in 8 years. Just to show how old/slow you can go and still have a decent audio recorder, this is a Pentium II -450 box with an Ensoniq (before Soundcrapper ruined them) card. It's running Soundforge 4. Does what it's asked to do just fine. The cassette machine, on its last legs, is a Sanyo that I bought way back in 1979 or so because it got great reviews for its low price point and was one of the cheapest well-reviewed decks to do metal (type IV) tape. Alas, it's dumpster-bound because it has a bad wow, even audible with spoken word. -- Tom Fine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Strauss" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 11:14 AM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Recommended software to make an iPod dump its library to iTunes on a second computer > On 12/21/06, Steven C. Barr(x) <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Frank Strauss" <[log in to unmask]> >> > the old Quicktime would absolutely not allow itself to be >> > removed. I spent about an hour on the phone with a very nice Apple >> person >> > in Canada, but his final suggestion was to wipe the hard drive and start >> > over. A local tech tried and decided he would have to do Registry >> editing, >> > and it ended up cheaper in the long run to get a new computer. >> > >> Note that Registry editing is NOT nearly as complicated as most folks >> may think! Windows provides "regedit.exe" (click on "Run" in the >> start menu and enter "regedit" in the resulting dialog box) which >> has a "Find" function which can find every occurrence of a word or >> character group in the Registry. "Find" the name (the offending >> program) and remove each occurence (usually in "Run" entries or >> those associated with file extensions). >> >> Tedious, yes...boring, yes...but not complicated (and useful to >> know if one gets hit by a virus...) >> >> Steven C. Barr >> > > My problem and the tech's was not really knowing everything that had to be > removed from the registry to completely get rid of Quicktime. A source of > irritation is the fact that I would even have to do something like this to > get rid of the program. > > > > -- > Frank B Strauss, DMD >