On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Ofnuts <ofn...@laposte.net> wrote: > On 01/06/2012 06:20 PM, Marci Davis wrote: > > My 11-year old daughter installed Gimp on our laptop. Shortly after, we > started having trouble with speed and resolution. Gimp will not open, nor > can we uninstall it. In fact, when I try, it crashes the computer. Any > suggestions? > > > There are two reputable places to get Gimp Windows installers: the gimp-win > project on sourceforge (http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/) for the 2.4 & 2.6 > versions and Partha's site for 2.7 (http://partha.com/). Everything else is > a bit suspiscious, and could have included unwanted software (trojan or > else). Or it's a mere chronological coincidence and Gimp isn't implied (if > you let your 11-yo install anything on your computer, goes know what else > got installed). > > As far as I remember the Gimp Windows installation is all under the Gimp > installation tree (no DLLs copied to Windows directories) and it doesn't set > anything in the registry, so erasing the installation tree may be sufficient > to uninstall it completely. > > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > gimp-user-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list >
My version comes with an installer which you will not copy anything to the Windows directory. Also, to uninstall, simply go to the control panel, and uninstall. Partha _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
