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Achy_
February 13th, 2003, 09:59 AM
Look 'n' Stop Lite 1.0.0.4 has been messed up. It is installed on an older Win98 PC and functioned well for a long while. Then spyware and viruses were removed from the system. Now LnS will not run, and the uninstaller is missing, so it cannot be removed in the orthodox manner. I tried re-installing it over top of the existing setup, but that made no apparent difference---it still neither runs nor uninstalls.

Are there prepared instructions for uninstalling manually?
Achy_
February 13th, 2003, 05:08 PM
LnS is running again, after further work. Still no uninstaller, though.
Frederic
February 15th, 2003, 07:50 AM
Look 'n' Stop is its own uninstaller.

The command line is looknstop -uninst

But normally the Start Menu should contain an icon for uninstall and in the control panel when double-cicking on add:remove programs, Look 'n' Stop should appear in the list of installed applications.

Regards,

Frederic.
Achy_
February 15th, 2003, 09:14 AM
{QUOTE-> quoting: Frederic link=board=13;threadid=7250;start=0#48346 date=1045313455]
But normally the Start Menu should contain an icon for uninstall and in the control panel when double-cicking on add:remove programs, Look 'n' Stop should appear in the list of installed applications.
<-QUOTE}
Normally, perhaps. But in this case neither Add/Remove nor Start-Uninstall is producing any noticeable effect. We will try the command line. Thanks for the response!
Frederic
February 15th, 2003, 09:23 AM
How did you note Look 'n' Stop is still there ?

File that should be removed after the uninstall (Win95/98/ ME information only):

c:\windows\system\fwapi.dll
c:\windows\system\lnsfw1.vxd
c:\windows\system\lnsfw.vxd

All content in c:\program files\soft4ever\looknstop, except files you placed by yourself inside this folder.

About the registry keys:
there is an entry in:[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\]
for automatic start
and for drivers:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\LNSFW]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\LNSFW1]

And finally the icons/shortcut in the Start Menu.

I think that's it.

Frederic
Achy_
February 15th, 2003, 12:21 PM
{QUOTE-> quoting: Frederic link=board=13;threadid=7250;start=0#48362 date=1045319025]
How did you note Look 'n' Stop is still there ?
<-QUOTE}

Dozens of ways: the icon in the systray, the fact that it's one of the running tasks, the files in the installation folder, etc. Thanks for the information.