Can't manually uninstalle Virtual PC Additions

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lowell.mills@lmco.com - 25 Jan 2007 05:08 GMT

I upgraded to VPC 7.0.2 from 6.1.1 about a year ago. I kept running
Win98 at the time and everything worked fine. Several months ago, I
upgraded from Win98 SE to Windows XP Pro and now my shared folders
don't work and I can't drag & drop files. I unistall and reinstall
Virtual Machine Additions from the PC dropdown menu and it acts like it
was successfully installed, but my shared folder stays grayed out and
doesn't work. I gather from these posts that I must manually uninstall
and then reinstall VM Additions. Using the Add/Delete Control Panel, I
was able to uninstall VM Additions as well as one of the two old
Virtual PC Additions listed there. When I try to remove the second
one, I'm told that I must be running Win95 or Win98, which, of
course, I'm not. Is there some other way to manually delete VPC
additions? Any ideas? I'm desperate.

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Steve Jain - 28 Jan 2007 22:04 GMT

>I upgraded to VPC 7.0.2 from 6.1.1 about a year ago. I kept running
>Win98 at the time and everything worked fine. Several months ago, I
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>course, I'm not. Is there some other way to manually delete VPC
>additions? Any ideas? I'm desperate.

Unfortunately, I think you're out of luck. The VM Additions install a
lot of hooks directly into the OS. It's unlikely you'll be able to
remove them now that the OS has been upgraded.

The Additions should have been removed before upgrading the OS.
Hopefully you've got a backup of your Win98 that you can go back to,
remove the Additions and then upgrade to XP.

There was a KB regarding this back in the Connectix days, I don't know
if it's still around in the MS KB system though.

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Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
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Lukas Brüderlin - 20 Feb 2007 19:00 GMT

> I upgraded to VPC 7.0.2 from 6.1.1 about a year ago. I kept running
> Win98 at the time and everything worked fine. Several months ago, I
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> course, I'm not. Is there some other way to manually delete VPC
> additions? Any ideas? I'm desperate.

Hi -

I have aswell a stupid prob with MS Virt.Machine Additions - after manually de-installing it (ovoer add/remove Programs)... the MS Server 2003 virt. Machine gets very slowly! AND: The mouse does not get out of the MS virt. Konsole anymore...

I've even activatet the undo Disks - but doesn't help me. Every time the same problem.

Well we are currently converting to VMWare ESX which is no problem, but I really don't like to migrate a slow system.
And when we didn't manually de-install it - ESX Migration Tool deinstalls it, but the problem with mouse causes similar problems in the ESX Console! And a the VM Add. Service still want to start and causes a problem by starting up with the message: "at least one service..."

THANKS for any help!!

Lukas
@Switzerland

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Can't manually uninstalle Virtual PC Additions