Chapter 42. Repairing and Removing Programs
Most of the time, you will experience very few problems with your applications. Occasionally, however, you might need to repair a program that is having problems. Or, you might want to remove a program or a Windows feature that you are not using.
In this chapter, you learn techniques for managing installed programs. You learn how to change or repair programs, as well as to remove programs you no longer need or want. You'll do most of these tasks in Control Panel's Programs and Features applet.
Changing and Repairing Programs
Some large programs let you choose how you want to install the program. For example, you may be given options to do a Minimum Install, Typical Install, or Complete Install. You might do a Minimum or Typical installation to conserve disk space, but later discover you need a feature that only the Complete install would have provided.
Sometimes a program might become corrupted and not work properly anymore. That can happen when you inadvertently delete a file that the program needed. Or it might be caused by some minor glitch that compromised a file that the program uses.
The first step to changing or repairing a program is to get to the Programs and Features applet in Control Panel. Here's how:
Click the Start button and choose Control Panel.
In the category view, click Programs.
Click Programs and Features.
You can also ...
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