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Uninstalling SW

Question asked by Glenn Douglas on Nov 27, 2007
Latest reply on Jan 23, 2008 by Jakob Steinicke

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We recently upgraded from SW 2006 to SW 2007. We have been having anumber of installation problems. When we upgraded the plan was tocompletely remove SW from all machines and reinstall a fresh 2007SP3 version. One system had a partial installation of SW 2005 thatrefuse to uninstall.

Is there a way to manually remove SW?

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Shawn Applegate Nov 27, 2007 1:00 PM
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Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs.

You probably want to also verify that the registry keys as gone as well. You can manually remove them (or rename them) after the uninstall via:

Start > Run > regedit.exe

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SolidWorks
and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SolidWorks
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- Glenn Douglas @ Shawn Applegate on Nov 27, 2007 1:09 PM
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  Add / Remove programs is choking I'm getting an error when tryingto remove 2007:
  
  Error 1316. A network error occurred while attempting to read thefile C:\WINDOWS\INSTALLER\SolidWorks Explorere.msi
  
  This is the same error we were getting trying to go from SP 3.1 to5.0
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- Brian Cayer @ Shawn Applegate on Nov 27, 2007 1:13 PM
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  It has been my experience that there is always something left of the old program after you remove it. I read on this forum somewhere that your VAR has a program that will scrub your system of any residual files before a clean install.
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  - Rob Jensen @ Brian Cayer on Nov 27, 2007 1:40 PM
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    There is a EXE on the SOlidWorks website that will do a clean uninstall. It's not supported by SW but I just used it this morning to test it out before we go to 2008 and it works OK. There was still some stuff that I have to clean up but it a pretty good job.
    
    The file is called SWCleanUninstall.exe
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    - Glenn Douglas @ Rob Jensen on Nov 27, 2007 5:51 PM
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      I've tried all of the above suggestions and still can't get SW toinstall. I'm installing from an admin image ad when the install getto SW Explorer it detects an older version of PDM Works....bangerror:
      
      Error 1316. A network error occurred while attempting to read thefile C:\WINDOWS\INSTALLER\SolidWorks Explorer.msi
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      - Brian Hughes @ Glenn Douglas on Nov 29, 2007 1:25 PM
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        Where installations fall down a careful walk through of the registry combined with removing any and all SolidWorks and related products installation and data directories on your harddrive is necessary.
        
        Get your VAR to visit or remote work on this. I was at a customer the other day who's IT guy likes 'hacked/cracked' software. We had a heck of a time fully removing the version of SolidWorks that was shoehorned onto a particular machine.
        
        Of significant benefit is ensuring that one is running cleanup and installations as local machine Administrator and not a domain or local user that has Administrative privleges via inclusion in the Administrators group.
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Jakob Steinicke Jan 23, 2008 12:02 PM
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I have not been able to finde the file mentioned: SWCleanUninstall.exe
Can anybody tell me where to find it?
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- Neal Rusy @ Jakob Steinicke on Jan 23, 2008 12:29 PM
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  Jakob Here it is
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  - SWCleanUninstall.zip25.5 KB
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  - Jakob Steinicke @ Neal Rusy on Jan 23, 2008 12:38 PM
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    Thanks a lot for the fast answer!
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