Add/Remove Problem

[Gabriele]

:wave: Hi..hope somebody can help me how to take out a program from add/remove...I have Paltalk totally uninstalled but I can't get it compleatly out of my add/remove program...Every time I try to remove it , a little box would pop up saying " Error: could not load intialization file "...
I have done numberous of searches but cant find anything on Paltalk anywere...In my Add/Remove Program it shows up as " Paltalk PV73 Build 524 "
...Any help is greatly appreciate it......Thank you...
Gabriele

[GretaP]

Hi Gabriele,

Open the registry editor (Start>Run key in regedit then click on OK or hit ENTER). Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SOFTWARE>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Uninstall
When you expand the Uninstall key, look for an entry for Paltalk. Right-click the Paltalk entry, then select Delete. Click on Yes in the "Are you sure?" dialogue box.
Close the registry editor.

[degsy]

Hi,

If the Program folder has been deleted then it's just a rogue entry.

There are several methods to remove it including Registry edits, tweaking programs and registry cleaners.

I would recommend Ace Utilities.

First use the Uninstall manager to delete the Entry.
Then use the Registry Cleaner to clean your registry of leftover entries.

http://www.acelogix.com/

[Gabriele]

:thumbsup: Hi GretaP & degsy, thank you so much for the fast response to my problem...

GretaP, I did what you said and it worked ....I am a happy camper again :happy: thank you again....

degsy, I will get me that program you talked about it ..I was only afraid to do that first because I had at one time " Registry First Aid "and it had cost me a lot of problems, so I'm a little scared with downloading something new...
I will give it a try and hope it does better than FirstAid did...Thank you for the Link....I really do appreciate all the help the two of you had given me...
Thank you.......
Gabriele

[GretaP]

You're very welcome, Gabriele :D

[spinoza]

I'm impressed with your knowledge and fast, courteous service. I hope you can help me with this paltalk problem. Mine is exactly as the above user's problem with trying to install/uninstall Paltalk, after trying to upgrade to their newest version. I'm a paying customer of theirs, and now their app won't even run on my pc! After receiving the same error message upon installation (#1, line2), I finally found you guys here--I read your response to her post above, and did what you reccommended. It completes the installation now, and where it used to generate the (#1, line 2) error message before, it now throws up a DIFFERENT error message (from windows this time) before even running the application: "Paltalk7 has caused an error in PALTALK7.EXE Paltalk will now close."
So, now the program has installed, but it can't run!
I tried the acelogix program you suggested. Maybe I don't know all the necessary features to use on it for correcting my problem, here, but when I did a scan of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE ENTRY and found the entries that plainly said Paltalk, pnetaware, or palnetaware, I deleted them individually--but to no avail. I still get the windows error message about the paltalk.exe file.
Can you please help me?

Thanks,
Spinoza