Hi, I was testing a program uninstaller, and I came across this:
The XnView Shell extension, and according to the uninstaller, there are two XnViewMP programs. As far as I know, I only have one program installed. Is this supposed to be the case, or is there a faulty installation or update, which is why it says there are two programs installed?
The 1.4.0 entry is from several years ago. It MIGHT be the remnants of an instance you installed in a different location, or the result of a partial uninstall, or some old registry entries, or a glitch, or anything because who knows how your unnamed 3rd party uninstaller is figuring things.
Once a Windows system has been used for a while, the registry is never clean. It’s the nature of the beast.
Hi, I've never had any problems with uninstallers; in fact, I usually use one, and now I had to try another one, which is why I noticed the XnView entries.
Without one of these uninstallers, it wouldn’t be possible to uninstall some programs. For example, I installed a Wondershare program to test it, and then I wanted to uninstall it, but neither the program itself, nor Windows, nor the uninstaller I usually use could get rid of that darn Wondershare—and with this latest uninstaller, I was finally able to get rid of it.
Well, maybe it’s better to uninstall everything that appears there and reinstall it, and I think it would be better to use an uninstaller to remove all the registry data for those programs, because if I reinstall XnView, those entries would probably still show up.
