Private Messages Check your Private Messages. Themes Choose an iVirtua Community theme to reflect your interests Sat Oct 27, am Reply and quote this post. Do you wish to continue? This is a due to the fact that WDS is installed using an update. Some products updates are dependant on previous updates and if one is removed, it may cause issues. Although Windows Desktop Search does create a system restore point as part of the installation it is not the recommended method of removing the product from users systems.
To uninstall Windows Desktop Search, use the Uninstaller package from the following locations for the following versions: Version Location 2. Interactive — Spuninst. Uninstaller prompts for restart at the end. Dear friends, I propose there a solution of trouble with Windows Desktop Search 3 deinstallation, discussed occasionally in Internet.
I've got this trouble too! The last update to version 3. Google Desktop instead! I have not found any solution in Internet, in newsgroups, even from Microsoft! So "if the mountain won't come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain! There is my proposal to an answer "How to uninstall Windows Desktop Search 3.
The result after downloading and installing your uninstaller was perfect. Thanks a lot from a chilean newbie who committed the unforgiven sin of installing such a complex and useless program being an ignorant on computer sciences. Which stopped me from your solution. I only ran a manual search for windows indexer, initially deleting all files, so unless this file was in one of those folders, it should still be on my computer. If you know why my computer can't find this file, let me know.
If not, I'm unable to go any further - unfortunately! I just discovered in playing around that if the spuninst. When I chopped those lines back out, it worked. Thanks for the information. I am getting a critical error that says "The handle is invalid. I click OK on that message box and then it says "The was not uninstalled. Thank you for this post. I had an user who could not open Outlook, except in safe mode. I decided that Windows Desktop Search was causing the problem but I could not uninstall it until I found your post.
Your method worked perfectly. When I used the spuninst. Your program worked perfectly. My computer runs faster now as well. The content you requested has been removed. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows Desktop Search Help. Sign in to vote. Dear friends, I propose a solution for trouble with Windows Desktop Search 3 deinstallation, have been discussed occasionally in Internet and here.
Tuesday, April 10, PM. Dear Derek, This method is universal. Best regards, Andrew. Wednesday, August 8, PM. Sunday, April 6, AM. Worked perfectly. Thanks for assisting me in removing this, I've been kicking myself for installing it in the first place! Saturday, April 14, PM. Very nice job!!! Work perfectly Thanks. Sunday, April 15, AM. Thought I was stuck. I was able to use the sample text for spuinist. Monday, April 16, PM. You Rock Man!! Thank you so much!! You've open the path for me to dismiss some other stuff from microsoft.
Monday, April 30, PM. Thank you a very good method and it works well. One word of caution: make sure you name the spuninst. If you make a spelling mistake like I did, and then fail to pay attention to the uninstallation window,you will uninstall the first spuninst. This will almost certainly lead to undesired results.
Of course, this will only happen if you are as silly as I am, but at least I wasn't so silly that I didn't make a ghost image before trying this, so no harm is done. Again, thanks for good work Andrew Kotsar! Monday, May 7, PM. Hi, John! Regards, Andrew.
Thanks a lot, it worked! Thursday, May 10, AM. Monday, May 21, PM. Thursday, May 24, PM. Andrew, Thanks from one more person who was able to make use of your steps. Matt Smith.
Monday, June 4, PM. Regards, Claudio. Thursday, June 7, AM. Hi, Matt, Thank you for your very warm words! Happy to help you and other people!
Friday, June 8, AM. Hi, Claudioh, I can say only that your situation is not usual! It's not unusual, I've always uninstalled it that way! Here are my spuninst. Anyways, I'm sure that info won't go to waste - we could use the method for uninstalling a faulty hotfix. Friday, June 8, PM. Saturday, June 9, AM. I cannot tell which version of WDS is on my machine.
I've 'disabled' it but I'd love to uninstall it. When I went to the Microsoft. So how do I find the right spuninst. I have tons of them in my root directory from all the updates WinXP runs. How do I know which version is running on my machine? Wednesday, June 13, PM. Thursday, June 14, AM. Friday, June 15, AM. Friday, July 20, AM. Double click on Spuninst. Reboot when prompted, everything is removed.
Friday, July 20, PM. Dear Clark, You are not the first "IT-guru" in this thread trying to teach us how to solve problem only by mouse clicks. Dear Andrew, I am wondering if your solution will work for me as well. Thanks and regards, Derek. Very great fast solution.
Thank you. Saturday, September 8, AM. Thx again! Wednesday, September 12, AM. Streetz 0. Monday, October 8, AM. Wednesday, October 10, PM. Our community of experts have been thoroughly vetted for their expertise and industry experience. What could take multiple guys 2 hours or more each to find is accessed in around 15 minutes on Experts Exchange. All rights reserved. Covered by US Patent. Come for the solution, stay for everything else. Welcome to our community! I want WDS to be installed on all machines however I want to be able to control via policy to prevent it running on certain machines.
Disabling the service via group policy would be an option, however I can't seem to find it Server running Windows , clients all running Windows XP.
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