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Ann Broome
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how to uninstall

Post by Ann Broome » Thu May 17, 2012 4:14 pm

My copy of Audacity was installed in my Documents folder rather than in the Program Files folder. I now want to uninstall it. I cannot use the 'uninstall a programme' feature in Windows Control Panel, because it does not list Audacity. Is it safe simply to delete Audacity's files? I'm worried it might leave traces in the registry that could cause trouble in the future. Thanks for any advice you can give.
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Re: how to uninstall

Post by steve » Thu May 17, 2012 4:22 pm

Which version of Audacity?
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Re: how to uninstall

Post by Ann Broome » Thu May 17, 2012 4:31 pm

Version 2.0.0 (Unicode) using Windows 7
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Re: how to uninstall

Post by steve » Thu May 17, 2012 5:02 pm

Just delete it.
There will be a few little bits left behind, but they shouldn't cause any problems if you want to re-install later and they won't affect any other programs.
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Re: how to uninstall

Post by thor21344 » Fri May 18, 2012 12:30 am

You might D/L the free REVO UNINSTALLER and do the uninstall with that

http://www.revouninstaller.com/revo_uni ... nload.html
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Re: how to uninstall

Post by Gale Andrews » Sat May 19, 2012 2:49 am

We recently added a FAQ to the development version of the Manual which covers this:
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ: ... _uninstall .


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