I made a mistake uninstalling

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I made a mistake uninstalling

Postby karma_mechanic » 02. March 2009 15:06

I was having a problem installing Joomla so I decided to uninstall XAMPP and start again. However, I forgot to read the uninstall instructions and instead used Windows Vista control panel to uninstall XAMPP. Now I cannot delete the C:\XAMPP folder or its Apache and PHP subfolders - I "need permission to perform this action". What should I do to remove XAMPP entirely so I can re-install? Thank you.
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Re: I made a mistake uninstalling

Postby Izzy » 02. March 2009 23:01

You must be logged in as an Administrator and disable UAC (User Account Control) which is a must if you want to do anything worth while with XAMPP as a web server admin.

Here is a link that explains how to disable UAC.
viewtopic.php?p=134260#p134260

Then reboot, login as an administrator and then try and delete XAMPP again.
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Re: I made a mistake uninstalling

Postby karma_mechanic » 03. March 2009 17:03

My UAC already is disabled. Perhaps I have to do something with the .bat files?
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Re: I made a mistake uninstalling

Postby Izzy » 03. March 2009 22:39

Run xampp\apache\apache_uninstallservice.bat file.

Run xampp\mysql\mysql\uninstallservice.bat file.

Check in Task Manager>Processes that no apache (2) or mysql processes are running if they are then select each in turn and click on End Process.

Try and delete now - or try again after a reboot but after a reboot and before trying to delete make sure that the apache and mysql services are not running in the Task Manager Processes tab again.
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