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How can I uninstall these MSN Messengers?

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imported_Neeraj

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When the beta MSN Messenger 7s came, I installed them each time. But when I go to Add or remove programs, I see 4 MSN Messengers consecutively! In ascending order, they are builds:
  • 425
  • 777
  • 813
  • 816
I'm keeping the last one, but the others don't uninstall when I click it. They say they can't find "MSN Messenger 7 disk", and that I should Browse to it. It's looking for their MSI packages. How can I remove them?

Here's the list.
Here's the error.
 
i just disable mine

i don't think you can actually unistall or delete them as they're part of the OS iirc. someone will correct me on that if i'm wrong (again 😛 )

edit actually i see you want to keep one, sorry. i don't know if theyre all in the same folder or not, my bad 🙁
 
Why would anyone want to uninstall a microsoft product... I'd suggest using a different instant messenger. Trillian.com is able to connect to not only msn but aol and icq. If you must use microsofts software then I'd uninstall all copies of msn that you can including the most recent. Then clean out the whatever is left from the add/remove programs list with ccleaner.com. Once the mess is dealt with install the latest version of msn and everything should be in order. But I wouldn't really recommend installing msn messenger because the msn network is about as reliable as windows 95.
 
Each time you upgrade, the previous version or build is always removed from Add/Remove. This is how it is with all programs.

In other words, something is seriously messed up with your machine (trust me, I went thru more upgrades than you for v7.0, I have a single entry for MSN Messenger). There's probably some sort of utility you have installed that is backing up and restoring your registry automatically, or you're doing it yourself with system restore. Or something is preventing the upgrade of programs from removing previous version/build info from the registry. You could be infected with a trojan or something, who knows. Or it could be something as simple as downloading and saving, then installing from, an external hard drive that wasn't hooked up the next time you installed, which messes with your TEMP.

Quick fix: open regedit and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall. Locate all three key folders for the previous builds and delete them. An easier way is to search the registry "Find what: 7.0.0xxx" (such as 7.0.0425) and "Look at: Data"...that will find the specific key folders quickly.
 
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