uninstaller.jar

[lintz]

I installed some trial software that I no longer want but now can't uninstall it. I first went through Add/Remove programs but it's not listed so I clicked the uninstall shortcut in the Start Menu and I get the normal windows message asking me what program I wanted to use to open the file 'uninstaller.jar'.

What program do I need to run the uninstaller to uninstall the software?

Thanks.

[eranga262154]

Are you sure is it there, I mean inside the programming files. Some trial versions remove itself after the trial period is pass.

[lintz]

The uninstaller.jar file is definately there.

The trial period hasn't finished yet, I just want to uninstall it as it's not what I'm after.

[eranga262154]

Have you try it on the command line. Sometimes *.jar files work fine on command line. Can't you manually delete it?

[lintz]

I can manually delete the program but want to also remove any registry entries it may have created, OCX files added etc....

How do I run the .JAR file from the command line?

[eranga262154]

Check this from the installation folder. But if you have deleted manually, I think it wont work. I have use it in Java few times.

[lintz]

Check what?

[eranga262154]

Oops, really sorry about that.

del /f ${jarfile}

[grilkip]

I can't test it for you but I think it should be.

java -jar uninstaller.jar

[eranga262154]

I think that is no Linux.

[kregg]

What grikip said is correct. Because Java is mult-platform, it works similar, regardless of operating system.

Note that you should either be in the system folder in the command line or you should manually type it in to get it working.

Under windows, *I think* it should work automatically. The dialog box you are getting is from the Sun Java manager or something and it's asking you whether you should trust it?

I would say Allow.

If not, go to the program file folder and delete the files manually. Note that this leaves a very messy trail and if there were programs that started up that depended on files in that folder, you will get error messages.