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- From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: How to deinstall appletts?
- Message-ID: <hatton.724365594@cgl.ucsf.edu>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 20:39:54 GMT
- References: <Bz624y.EMz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec14.003741.23753@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
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- sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
- >In article <Bz624y.EMz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nishith A. Patel) writes:
- >>How do you deinstall all the games that come with OS/2, except for solitaire?
- >>Better yet, does anyone know how to install the solitaire which comes with
- >>Windows? Then I would just delete all the games.
-
- >Pretty easy, really. You can just delete the appropriate files in
- >\OS2\APPS.
-
- >However, if you want something a little friendlier, try the new Visual
- >REXX Selective Uninstall applet. It is available via anonymous ftp
- >from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, directory /pub/uploads/sharebbs or
- >/pub/uploads/sharebbs2, I believe (although it will be moved). Check
- >the "description" files in those directories for an annotated list.
-
- Is this the same as the Uninstall on the Service Pack? It basically allows
- undoing whatever Selective Install puts on, so it doesn't let you remove
- just one or two applets and keep the rest. You can manually unpack the
- uninstall.exe and .hlp from the SP (disks...8 and 9?) if it wasn't
- installed automatically.
-
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- Tom Hatton
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