[Help]Anyone knows how to remove Agilent 1100 workstation?

[ocean719]

As the title shows, the vision of workstation is A.XX.
Here is the deal: I want to replace the workstation of 1100 with 1290, however, when I was installing the program, a window poped out saying that your computer has installed a vision of Agilent workstation, you gotta remove the previous vision first. So I checked the control pannel finding that there is no Agilent workstation on the list of installed programs, so I checked the installation package of 1100 in which I found a exetable program named remove, but there was no response when I double clicked it.
With a disappointment I deleted the folder of the workstation, but the installation still can not proceed with the same problem anyway.
Is there anyone who can help me out? Thanks a lot in advance!

[tom jupille]

It cane done by running regedit and deleting all references to Agilent and/or the subdirectories which you erased. That's not for the faint of heart because a slipup could render the computer inoperable. If your first response is "what does he mean by 'regedit'?", then you *definitely* want to get a Windows guru in to do it for you!

[ocean719]

It cane done by running regedit and deleting all references to Agilent and/or the subdirectories which you erased. That's not for the faint of heart because a slipup could render the computer inoperable. If your first response is "what does he mean by 'regedit'?", then you *definitely* want to get a Windows guru in to do it for you!

I have run through the regedit with keywords "Agilent" and the floder path "hpchem" but I got nothing. A kind guy told me to change the content of the file "win.ini" and It worked, however, it was followed by another problem: a window poped out saying "The floder path ‘My Documents‘ contains an invalid character". How weird is that! Because the path of my documents is only "C:\documents" which means it is impossible that the path contains invalid characters. So I guess is there something to do with my partion of the hard disk? I'm using a solid state drive with only one partion.

[tom jupille]

Or, it is possible that you inadvertently screwed up something with regedit, possibly by mis-spelling a key word.

Hopefully, you set a restore point before playing with regedit. If you did, you should be able to restore to that earlier state and undo an registry errors. Depending on what else is on there, your best bet might actually be to reformat the hard drive and resinstall Windows.

[ocean719]

Or, it is possible that you inadvertently screwed up something with regedit, possibly by mis-spelling a key word.

Hopefully, you set a restore point before playing with regedit. If you did, you should be able to restore to that earlier state and undo an registry errors. Depending on what else is on there, your best bet might actually be to reformat the hard drive and resinstall Windows.

To reformat the hard drive and resinstall Windows is the last thing I would do, however, it seems I don't have too much choice left. Thank you very much all the same!

[tom jupille]

Agreed, but I have had several occasions in the past where I would have been better off to simply reformat and reinstall rather than waste several days trying "easy" fixes that didn't work -- and then having to reformat and reinstall anyway. There are times when a shortcut is the longest distance between two points.