So I had GAIM and GTK (as well as Gaim-Encryption plug-in and GNU Aspell) installed on a secondary drive (not the same one as XP) which died and is unrecoverable. GAIM and GTK still show up in Add/Remove Programs, but when I try to uninstall them, since they're looking for the uninstall scripts on the dead drive, I get an error.
If I try to reinstall GAIM w/GTK it doesn't work, I get all sorts of DLL issues, and my machine will not connect to the Internet at all -- had to use system restore to get back to a functioning system.
So I assume I have to go into the Registry and strip out the GAIM and GTK entries? Any guidance/tips on that? Thx. John.
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Unfortunately I didn't document them well but remember GTK and/or DLL related errors. Whatever the case, my belief is if I can strip the registry of all GTK and/or GAIM entries, I should be able to reinstall no problem, whereas now any new install seems tainted by the previous one.
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You don't need to remember, just try it again. Without the errors I can't help you. I have no idea what (if any) registry settings gaim might or might not set up, but that's almost certainly the wrong place to start. Get the errors for both installation and running and we'll work from there.
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So I had GAIM and GTK (as well as Gaim-Encryption plug-in and GNU Aspell) installed on a secondary drive (not the same one as XP) which died and is unrecoverable. GAIM and GTK still show up in Add/Remove Programs, but when I try to uninstall them, since they're looking for the uninstall scripts on the dead drive, I get an error.
If I try to reinstall GAIM w/GTK it doesn't work, I get all sorts of DLL issues, and my machine will not connect to the Internet at all -- had to use system restore to get back to a functioning system.
So I assume I have to go into the Registry and strip out the GAIM and GTK entries? Any guidance/tips on that? Thx. John.
Any ideas?
What errors did you get when trying to reinstall gaim and gtk? What errors did you get from gaim when trying to connect?
Unfortunately I didn't document them well but remember GTK and/or DLL related errors. Whatever the case, my belief is if I can strip the registry of all GTK and/or GAIM entries, I should be able to reinstall no problem, whereas now any new install seems tainted by the previous one.
You don't need to remember, just try it again. Without the errors I can't help you. I have no idea what (if any) registry settings gaim might or might not set up, but that's almost certainly the wrong place to start. Get the errors for both installation and running and we'll work from there.