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How to delete a program..switcher her
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Apr 11, 2003, 03:06 PM
 
I want to delete the palm program and reinstall it with the cd...how do i delete the palm os and its part completely..

thx.
     
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Apr 11, 2003, 03:21 PM
 
just do a search for "palm" on your harddrive and delete everything...the app, prefs, etc.
then do a new install.
"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
     
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Apr 11, 2003, 03:27 PM
 
thats really awkward
theres gotta be a better way than that for a mac?
     
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Apr 11, 2003, 03:34 PM
 
Unlike most Mac programs Palm puts stuff all over the place.

The good news is there is an Uninstall option right in the Palm installer.

Just double click the Palm installer and choose uninstall.
     
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Apr 12, 2003, 12:06 AM
 
Thanks for the help...this is much easier than the add/remove option on Win.

     
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Apr 12, 2003, 01:54 AM
 
Originally posted by tyrelle:
Thanks for the help...this is much easier than the add/remove option on Win.

And thankfully, with most programs, you don't even need to do that. Just drag the bundle (the applications icon) to the trash. It might leave around a few preference files, but that is not going to cause you problems unlike the cr*p that gets left in the registry if you were to do the same thing on Windows..

I'm a recent switcher too and I was pretty surprised by the lack of an uninstaller too. Until I realized that everything was so self-contained that it would just be needless complexity.
     
   
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