More uninstall options

This is a discussion about More uninstall options in the Windows Hardware category; for those people that do not already know this tweak you can uninstall a lot of **** by editing your sysoc. inf and changing the things that say HIDE to nothing so if its like blahblah,HIDE,blahblah just change it to blahblah,,blahblah I do this and it is nice because i get rid of crap like msn explorer messanger a ...

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for those people that do not already know this tweak you can uninstall a lot of **** by editing your sysoc.inf and changing the things that say HIDE to nothing so if its like blahblah,HIDE,blahblah just change it to blahblah,,blahblah
 
I do this and it is nice because i get rid of crap like msn explorer messanger all the games, indexing service and stuff like that.

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you could have went to Add\Remove Program to uninstall those things, there is a feature there

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JD, the 'hide' flag hides it from the Add/Remove dialog. Thats its purpose.
 
However, MSN Explorer isn't a component, and so is shown in the normal Add/Remove Programs section without having to alter the formentioned file.
 
--Cynan.