Daz Studio Impossible to uninstall normally ?
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As a long term customer (Poser, etc) I am more than surprised to be unable to uninstall Daz without using the Installer Manager.
Furious to be stuck with a program that does not start anymore, having tried many times the recommended way to uninstall, and reinstall Daz Studio, Genesis and so on with no result at all ( openGl prompt , no start etc), I have tried to uninstall the whole package using the window uninstaller but Studio does not even appear in the list of the installed programs. Revo Uninstaller does not see it either. Ive got rid of the content management, of the installer itself, but the program was still there. I ve put the whole file in the bin but is this a normal procedure ?
Anyway, please anyone, how do I reinstall the whole stuff from scratch ? (hoping that my opengl problem will be solved because the dev team has no clue).
And please moderator don't tell me its a pending problem on the forum . It's not. I obviously have a new one, i cannot uninstall Daz whithout Daz consent.
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If you installed it with DAZ Install Manager you need to uninstall it the same way.
Right, I will keep you posted then. I uninstall all that stuff through the Manager. May I know where the "ready to install" file is stored ?
In the Downloads folder -- default location is "C:\Users\Public\Documents\DAZ 3D\InstallManager\Downloads"
Although you don't need it to uninstall.
If anyone is interested, I solved that OpenGL problem (you know, the prompt at start : you should have Opengl 1.3, you only have 1.1,& your program wont start). Here is what I did (it's a know problem, "they" said, without further comment - now its a known solution. But one would have preferred not to spend 2 days on this)
When I bought a new graphic card from nvidia, i immediately updated the driver, but Daz would stop to function right away. When getting back to the old driver (after a kind but desperating advice from the support team) Daz would start to work again. So I tried to disinstall daz through the sacred "content manager and the install manager", the two pillars of orthodoxy. Uninstall, reinstall. Always through the Install Manager. THAT was the mistake. Orthodoxy.
Do not follw the autorized advices (look upthere)
In a case like this, just wipe manually your Daz Studio file in Programs (X64), read the install log in /Public Documents/Daz/Downloads, see if something went wrong during a previous installation. Uninstall all the content through a brand newly downloaded and installed install manager, visit the Public Documents /Daz/Downloads/ get rid of the stuff you suspect to have caused the problem (in my case maybe a so called Valentina CMS with o bytes), redownload the stuff, reinstall your content through the orthodox installer and bingo, It works with the latest driver from Nvidia (344).
Hope this will be indexed by Google cause its a pity to read the desperate attempts made by the users stuck with this problem and who got no help from upthere.
Harumph... shades of ancient history. Microsoft tried that tactic with early versions of "MS Office" You had to have the CD to uninstall Office. So if you inherited a PC and didn't need Office and wanted to properly remove Office for space reasons (a frequent need on early computers) and didn't have the CD you were stuck) What a pain in the behind! :-(
Microsoft has a way to remove programs properly. Software companies can link their product's native uninstaller to it. Lack of disk space is no longer a valid excuse. This standard uninstall technique should be implemented for all software.
Well, you could also go into the ManifestFiles folder and look at the .dsx file from installing DAZ Studio -- that tells you exactly what was installed where.