Removal help needed

[Patrick Spendrin]

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Am 11.08.2015 um 11:58 schrieb Anne Wilson:
> Hi.  I have KDE installed on an older laptop which has just been 
> upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10.  The KDE apps are no longer
> used on that laptop (they are 2 years old), so I wanted to remove
> them, but all my efforts have failed.
> 
> They are not installed within the Windows Programs system, and I
> thought I remembered that they had to be uninstalled using the KDE 
> Installer-GUI.  I did that, and got messages that they were 
> uninstalling, but coming back to the laptop afterwards I found that
> the command window with a message from kdewin4init (misremembered
> name?) still opens, and all the programs are back in the
> appropriate folders.
> 
> Since another family member will be using that laptop I need to
> clean it up, so what should I do to properly remove them?

Try to open the windows task manager, navigate to the processes tab,
and close all KDE processes, that is kded4.exe, kdeinit4.exe... and
dbus-daemon.exe .

Then go to the installation directory and remove the complete
installation directory.

To cleanup also the user settings, open the explorer, and go to
%APPDATA% and remove the .kde directory.

If removing a file fails, check that you really killed all processes
in question.

> 
> Anne

regards,
Patrick
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