Generally If you want to uninstall/remove a program on Windows XP or Vista, you can do so by going to the Control Panel and selecting the “Add or Remove Programs” option. Then you just browse through the list and select the programs you want to remove, and most of the time it works fine.
However, in some cases there will be programs that cannot be removed via this method. This can be frustrating and it doesn’t help when you are trying to de-clutter your PC. Quite often remnant spyware/adware applications wont uninstall and some programs that are missing their uninstall file also won’t be going anywhere in a hurry.
What you can do is just leave the program hanging around in the program list and delete its folder and related files, however, this does not necessarily remove the registry entries for the program. In the case of some adware, it can reinstall itself if it still exists in the registry. We also don’t recommend that you manually try to remove program entries from the registry as this can cause far more serious problems.
So for really stubborn programs we recommend something like Perfect Uninstaller. This should be able to uninstall pretty much anything. It’s a very simple program to use and it does the job. If you need to remove something and it can’t be done via Windows, then try this out. The free trial is below:
