Cant uninstall anything

I remember uninstalling Battle. I restarted my computer, and tried again. It failed. As it turns out, this is happening with everything I try to uninstall. A message pops up if I try to retry. I believe, I may have downloaded something malicious that prevents my laptop from uninstalling in fear of getting rid of the said malicious software.

I'm no computer expert, and I may look like a huge idiot, but any words of advice would be hugely appreciated. Thank you, Kate. Saga Lout Olde English Moderator. Mar 31, 5, 56 46, 2, You must log in or register to reply here.

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Question Msft installed Edge in my PC. Question Suspicious utorrent icon in windows start menu even after uninstalling Solved! I accidentally uninstalled my display driver.. Active Oldest Votes. Now you can remove it using: apt-get remove vivaldi-preview. Improve this answer.

Yes, but you probably won't be able to uninstall anything else. Because of it, I don't think that this should be an accepted answer. Maybe you should look at other suggestions? Well I've been able to uninstall a bunch of things since them, no problem at the moment. And that was the solution I found so that's why for me is an accepted answer.

Whem I run 1 I get this error E: Internal Error, No file name for vivaldi-preview:amd64 and when I run 2 and 3: dpkg: error processing package vivaldi-preview --purge : subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 xdg-icon-resource: size argument must be numeric 4 Can't find a file named vivaldi-preview on that folder.

Try searching for solutions with your output, solutions for ubuntu will apply so you can very well ask on askubuntu. Just remember you can always answer your own questions if you happen to fix it.

For Ubuntu type: sudo apt-get remove vivaldi-snapshot. Alex Alex 1. Hey Alex, welcome to elementary OS stack exchange. The install setup makes changes in the Windows Registry. This is a database where the settings and options for the operating system are stored.

Same goes for any applications or OS components that use this database. The installer can make changes in the Registry. For example, if a shared library needs to be registered or if certain types of files need to be associated with the program being installed. If you install it you will also be able to open Microsoft Word documents. Next in line is… The installer is taking is to add a key to the Windows Registry. This is where the Windows Apps and Features tool looks for installed programs. During the installation process, all these operations for installing are stored in a special log file.

The uninstaller goes through the log file and reverts all the changes done during the installation. In other words, it deletes all the copied files, all Registry keys created and so forth. If by any chance there is no log file, or if there is no record of the changes made to the registry, there is a high chance that the uninstaller will fail. This means that the software product will need to be removed by other means. Find the specific software that you want to uninstall and select it.

Click the Uninstall button After that just follow the onscreen instructions. You can find more about this process in our previously written article about this topic However, there are cases where Windows fails to uninstall certain third-party programs. You can find information on how to use the Forced Uninstall in this article Revo Uninstaller Pro 4 forced uninstall also helps in some cases when the product that you want to remove gets stuck halfway through its uninstallation.

I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Hi, Thank you for posting the query on Microsoft Community. Restart the computer a few times and check. I suggest you to try the steps below and check if it helps. Click on Command Prompt admin. Please get back to us with the results to assist you further.