foose4string wrote:
I found those uninstall files and double clicked on unins000.exe. All it did was remove those two files. The rest of the program folder is still intact.
When first I came to Audacity I went through about the same thing; I installed the "stable" 1.2.6 not realizing how old and "unstable" (for my platform) it was. For me also it would not uninstall so I needed to do it all by hand--it was not pretty, not fun and not for the faint of heart! I can attempt to step you through it but I warn you it may be a long tedious process! Here is the general idea:
WARNING! EDITING THE REGISTRY MAY CAUSE YOUR COMPUTER TO FAIL TO BOOT
PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK!
1) obtain a good registry cleaner (I use "Little Registry Cleaner"--free, open source and currently maintained).
2) use said registry cleaner (or regedit, the registry editor which comes with Windows) to create a backup of your current registry.
3) this non-step is very important--don't run any apps which might change the registry until the rest of the steps are all complete (try not to run any programs--no e-mail, no installing/unistalling etc.); if you must you may run your browser (like Chrome or IE) and you will need to run Windows Explorer to monitor directory content.
4) uninstall 1.3--sorry, but it will leave your configuration folder in place so this is not horrible.
5) Search all your hard drives for "audacity" to locate every folder which might be Audacity related, at this point identify your 1.3 configuration folder which contains "audacity.cfg" (as well as other stuff) this is from 1.3 and may safely be ignored.
5) delete every folder (except the 1.3 configuration folder which you may safely retain).
6) run your registry cleaner at least three times--sometimes the first pass will not pick everything up (you may use more than one registry cleaner --CC Clean is also good)--this will find most but not all of the 1.2 entries.
The final step is to manually edit your registry. At this point, you should reboot before proceeding. Start regedit (use the Windows Run command box--if you don't know how to do this ask for more details). You will get a program which looks like:
- regeditAudacity1.2a.png (48.56 KiB) Viewed 1101 times
click once on "Computer" to highlight it, use the
Edit > Find... menu item to open the search dialog, check all three boxes (Keys, Values, Data), fill in audacity as the search term, click
Find Next.
Searching the registry is a slow process, it may take a moment to find each entry and you must search them one at a time. When an entry is found you must delete it:
- regeditAudacity1.2b.png (41 KiB) Viewed 1101 times
In the above it found the reference to the file extension .AUP -- right-click on this entry (in the left-hand panel--green arrow) and choose
Delete from the context menu.
Follow this procedure, searching and deleting until no more entries are found. To make sure you got them all, scroll the left panel all the way to the top, click once on "Computer" to highlight it and do the search a final time to see the "No more found" popup.
If that was not tedious enough, you are not through! Follow the same search and delete process searching "aup" (it should not find very many entries--maybe none).
Reboot, reinstall 1.3.14 from here:
http://audacityteam.org/download
test and report your progress to us here.
