Corel has made a program available for removing PSP from your computer. These instructions provide a method that is much more thorough than using Add/Remove Programs from the Control Panel. You can read about this program000004867 - Completely uninstalling and reinstalling Paint Shop Pro Photo
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Before installing, disable the Firewall and Antivirus software!
Before you install a program, a patch or an update and whenever you want to change something on your system, since Vista you have to log in as administrator and the only way to get full administrator access is by turning off the User Account Control and right-click on a program, patch or update and go to "Run as Administrator". Otherwise, you will have problems working properly on your system.
Vista: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Turn-User-Account-Control-on-or-off
Before you uninstall a program, please check whether you have installed the program as a user or an administrator.
You will not find some parts of the program, if you are logged in as an user, but you installed the software with your administrator account.
Uninstalling
1. Control Panel:
Go to Start – Control Panel - Add and Remove Programs (XP)/Programs and Features (Vista) and remove Paint Shop Pro X2.
2. Registry:
Every program leaves keys in the Registry which need to be removed. Before you work in the registry, please make a backup copy by (export) the Registry first. If you make a mistake, then you can import the registry again.
Attention: If you have several Corel programs on your machine, please make sure that you carry out all the following instructions only for the program that you wish to remove.
Go to Start – Run and type “regedit” and press “Enter”.
If you work with Windows Vista/7, type “regedit” in the Search box and press “Enter”.
Open the following keys
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-776561741-813497703-1957994488-1531\Software\Corel\
and delete the following keys under the Corel\
The folder Paint Shop Pro X2 including all sub-folders
Please, check in HKEY_USERS\Software to make sure that there is no Corel or Program Paint Shop Pro X2 folder.
3. C:\
Important: When you have several Corel programs on your machine, please note that all instructions apply only to your program.
In C:\Program Files please delete the following files and folders:
The Corel folder, or, if you have other Corel programs, only the Paint Shop Pro X2 folder.
If you can’t see the AppData folder, go to Start – Control Panel – Folder options - View and activate “Show hidden Files and Folders”.
Go to:
C:\Documents and Settings\ADMINISTRATOR\AppData\Corel
C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR NAME\AppData\Corel
If you work with Vista, g to C:\Users\Agent\AppData\Roaming\Corel
and delete the folder Paint Shop Pro X2.
Go to: (look at the content in that folder and don't delete your own project files if you want to reinstall PSPPX2)
C:\My Documents\My PSP Files
and delete the folder
4. Turn your computer off completely and then turn it on again after several minutes.
Install Paint Shop Pro X2 again.
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