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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Windows 7: Wait Until the Current Program is Finished Uninstalling

I was using Windows 7.  I wanted to uninstall a program.  I went into Control Panel > Programs and Features, selected the program to uninstall, and clicked Uninstall.  This gave me an error message:
Please wait until the current program is finished uninstalling or being changed.
I ran a search and found various forms of advice.  Trying the easiest solutions first, the one that worked for me was to go into Task Manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del), go to the Processes tab, and end InstallManager.exe.  A few other possibilities were to run Revo-Uninstaller; to run CCleaner; to look in Task Manager for any other processes that said Setup or Installer; to reinstall the program and then try uninstalling; or to reboot and try uninstalling in Safe Mode.

15 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 1, 2012 at 12:06 PM

    Thanks! :)

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 14, 2013 at 1:11 PM

    Open Task Manager, go to processes, and kill explorer.exe - then go to file, new task, type explorer and click OK - that's it. Fixed for me.

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  3. babuMarch 27, 2013 at 9:25 AM

    Its worked for me.thanks

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  4. AndreyMay 23, 2013 at 4:14 AM

    Hello Kyle,

    your hint worked for me either.

    Greetings from Hamburg,
    Andrey

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  5. AnonymousSeptember 6, 2013 at 5:35 AM

    Killing explorer.exe fixed the problem for me too.

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  6. rainabbaOctober 23, 2013 at 11:49 PM

    Windows 8.1 and MS still can't do the simplest things correctly forcing reboots or stupid actions like suggested here (but that work). I too had to kill explorer.exe and restart it to prevent a full reboot. thanks for the tip.

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  7. rainabbaOctober 23, 2013 at 11:49 PM

    Windows 8.1 and MS still can't do the simplest things correctly forcing reboots or stupid actions like suggested here (but that work). I too had to kill explorer.exe and restart it to prevent a full reboot. thanks for the tip.

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  8. AnonymousDecember 2, 2013 at 2:53 PM

    Thanks
    Revo uninstaller worked like magic....
    I recommend to all.

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  9. AnonymousJanuary 4, 2014 at 3:48 AM

    Thanks from me too.

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  10. AnonymousJanuary 13, 2014 at 12:27 PM

    Thanks a lot! Worked like a treat!

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  11. AnonymousJanuary 30, 2014 at 12:21 PM

    yes, Revo uninstaller is a true magic.
    thanks

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  12. UnknownMay 5, 2014 at 12:23 AM

    thank you kyle hanson quick and easy fix.

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  13. AnonymousAugust 21, 2014 at 3:59 PM

    Thank you Kyle Hanson, fixed the problem very quickly :)

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  14. AnonymousDecember 12, 2015 at 5:13 PM

    thank you! it worked.

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  15. UnknownJanuary 24, 2017 at 10:59 AM

    Thank you Kyle, worked for me also. Easiest and quickest.

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