Uninstalling WinWasher

[SnapperOne 0]

Used the trial version of WinWasher once or twice over the 30-day trial period. Appears to be a nice program. Didn't use it enough, however, to determine if I wanted to spend $30 for the complete package, so I tried to uninstall then reinstalled the demo. In short, the Install Wizard said, "Your 30 days are up!"

 

Here's the question! If the program was, supposedly, unistalled using Control Panel's "Add/Remove" function, do you have an idea where they stored the file(s) that triggered the "Your 30 days are up" message. I found some residual files in the Registry, but apparently missed some others.

 

SnapperOne

[Valerie 0]

Were you referring to winwasher or Webwasher? I'll have a good guess programs of this sort are spyware or comes bundled with them.

 

Even if you did a clean uninstall, the original installation already contains files that are left in your comp or registry files. These tracks and monitor your online activity without your consent. EVEN AFTER you have uninstalled the program.

 

That could possibly explain the reason why it happened. Such spyware always eat up precious disk space. To get rid of them, you have to download a program called Ad-aware that specifically detects and removes spyware.

 

It is very popular and is free. It clears away cookies and traces of internet activity, cleans up registry files. However, its not the most powerful one i have seen although it is good enuff.

 

For the best solution, check out Cyberscrub.... it deletes all deleted items that may still remain locked in your system without recovery. So even if you have deleted webwasher and cleared the recycle bin, it still remains somewhere in the comp.

[CUViper 0]

As clutch said in this post, questions like this are mainly to get around the trial periods, which basically amounts to w-arez. Therefore, you're gonna have to go elsewhere to get help with this. Sorry!

[clutch 1]

OK, I did receive a nicely done email about this from the topic author, but (as CUViper correctly pointed out) this is based entirely on getting around a license limitation on the demo version of the product:

 

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Used the trial version of WinWasher once or twice over the 30-day trial period. Appears to be a nice program. Didn't use it enough, however, to determine if I wanted to spend for the complete package, so I tried to uninstall then reinstalled the demo. In short, the Install Wizard said, "Your 30 days are up!"

 

Now, I would imagine that it is a problem with a registry key or some vague file somewhere, but the premise is to override an existing protection scheme that blocks what you have done already, and what you are trying to do again. Please don't continue in this manner on this forum.