On 1 Nov 2005 at 23:33, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > Noel Stoutenburg / 2005/11/01 / 10:21 PM wrote: > >whether you ran "add / remove software" from the control panel, or > >the uninstall, which should be in the application folder. > > > >Can you clarify? > > > >If you ran add/remove from the control panel, you may need to do it > >the other way.... > > Actually, you probably don't want to run from Finale folder. I am > familiar with VISE. Unlike InstallerShield, VICE uses generic > unvise.exe (they are Mac installer company!) and it is somewhat safer > to run from Add/Remove _in general_ especially when you have ran more > than one VISE installed applications. In my case, unvise.exe link was > already broken.
It makes no difference whether you run the Uninstall from shortcut set up in the Programs menu or from Add/Remove Programs. I have only Finale 2003, but the uninstall string for the Add/Remove tools is: C:\WIN2K\unvise32.exe d:\programs\finale2003\uninstal.log (pulled from the Registry at HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Finale 2003) while the command line for the Uninstall shortcut on the Programs menu is: C:\WIN2K\unvise32.exe d:\programs\FINALE~1\uninstal.log As you can see, it's identical, except for the short filename in the shortcut (and yes, FINALE~1 is the short filename for finale2003). Any program that *doesn't* use the same routines in their uninstall shortcut on the Programs menu and in the Add/Remove tool is badly designed, *but*, I'd recommend using the one in the Programs menu over the generic Add/Remove tool uninstall, since it may be that the routine generated by the application's installer will be more complete than the one launched from the generic OS uninstall tool. > David W. Fenton / 2005/11/01 / 09:17 PM wrote: > >This can be tested by reverting to a plain vanilla driver, or by > >restarting in SAFE MODE. > > David, I didn't try Safe Mode since I believed Finale won't run on > Safe Mode assuming it will look for MIDI/Sound driver. But before I > saw your post, I was able to remedy the problem. Finale will run without MIDI if you turn it off. I ran Finale without a sound card for the first 5 years that I used it. It was an annoyance to not have it, as until you disabled MIDI (can't remember how it was done) every time you entered the Speedy frame, you got the error message about MIDI not being available. But there was a workaround. Of course, I'm not certain you're right that MIDI is *not* available under Safe Mode. I can't quite figure out why it wouldn't be, to be honest. > I uninstalled as the 2nd time but this time I went to look into > registry. Surprise, surprise. There are tons under Class_Root(!), > which I wasn't too comfortable deleting around, but I deleted all the > Current_User registry that had Finale on it. The following > installation got it working again. Whew.. > > Boy, am I glad I work on Mac!! Well, registry corruption is something that I've not seen much of for many years (except in Microsoft Office). And Finale (wisely, in my opinion) uses the registry much less than many programs (though it now uses it much more than it did a few years ago). Obviously, something was wrong with the machine if it wasn't removing the Finale classes. Microsoft provides an Office Eraser program that will clean up after you remove Office. Perhaps you could suggest that MakeMusic do the same for Finale for situations like this. It would definitely be a good troubleshooting tool to have in the arsenal when re-installing didn't fix a problem. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
