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hooterville   03-18-2007 at 06:27:25 PM

that are not in the unstall list in the control panel?

I have stuff like the get Vonage thing on my desktop and there is no uninstall for it.

When I do a search for Vonage in the system it comes up with 4-5 shortcuts/links for Vonage.

Should I just deleted these and will that get rid of this program? :roll:

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darious00777   03-19-2007 at 12:45:57 AM
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Deleting it would be the easiest route. If the program can't be found in Programs and Features, then it probably isn't installed.

If you're meaning the Vonage icon is in lower right corner and you can't get it to go away: Type msconfig in the search bar after clicking the windows icon in the lower left. Under Boot unclick the programs you don't want to run when Windows starts up.

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hooterville   03-19-2007 at 01:10:37 AM
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Ok, Great.

So it would be Ok just to go ahead and delete all the links that I find from a search for that item and other junk I would like to get rid of?

If it's not showing in the uninstall programs list then it is not installed on the computer?

First time playing with Vista and there is a ton of junk on this machine that I would like to get rid of like Snapfish Photos, Vonage, AOL, eBay, earthlink ETC.

Thanks..

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darious00777   03-19-2007 at 04:30:56 AM
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Most of what I wrote I learned plainly from dealing with XP. Vista is a bit different, but a lot of the interface is the same as before.

For any links, those will just direct a browser to a website, not much more. If you mean links in the search, I'd go to the folder they're located in and straight out delete the folders, if you don't want any of the things in there. If anything is located in a WINDOWS subfolder, try to avoid doing anything with those. Just as a precaution.

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