[legion]

I have had a lifelong battle removing pre-installed software. Most of it either doesn't come with an uninstall program, or leaves a whole bunch of crap on your computer anyway.

Back in the Windows 95 days, I got myself a SCSI ZIP drive which came with a program to "move" applications so that they could be run from the ZIP drive. I figured out that I could move the programs, delete them, then search the hard drive and registry for any references to D: and remove whatever I found.

Some time around Windows XP, I went out and bought a standalone uninstall program. It basically took the programs off of my start menu but still left them on the hard drive, in the registry, and their DLLs around too.

Now days I run the uninstall program (if it exists), delete the program from the hard drive (some or all of it is almost always still there), and manually delete any registry keys that refer to the now deleted program. I used to then go on and play "the farmer in the DLL", in which I'd try to manually delete any related DLLs, but I once damaged a Windows install in such a way that even the OEM backup CD couldn't fix it.