Comments on: Removal of Roxio software from Dell Vista system – Probably a good idea!

By: Mads

Mads — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:00:16 +0000

I have had exactly the same problems. Can’t tell you how much I hate Roxio after this. And I can’t believe that DELL has chosen this crapy software. I’d rather have a virus than installing Roxio again. I have a DELL XPS M1730 and absolutely love it. The Roxio experience has been my only disappointment and huge frustration. I managed back then to get rid of the runtimes and delete the files from the disk. But I am still stuck with the cluster of Roxio applications in my add/remove programs list. Haven’t had the energy yet to try and remove them. Cheers all !

By: teknobabble

teknobabble — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:40:35 +0000

Hi Paul,

For step 4, you need to edit the registry.

Be careful – if screw up up the registry you’re in serious trouble – it may be best to do a system backup first.

Most people use regedit to edit the registry. Go to start button and type regedit.

Good luck!

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:51:42 +0000

Hi,

Good article – I have a question though,

When you say:

“Step 4 involves removal of registry records

Double-click the HKEY_CURRENT_USER folder this will expand or open the folder.”

Where exactly is this folder located?

Thanks for your time,

Paul

By: gesswambdews

gesswambdews — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:08:13 +0000

thats it, bro

By: Dell Inspiron 9400 slow start-up and shutdown « Helvetica1’s Weblog

Dell Inspiron 9400 slow start-up and shutdown « Helvetica1’s Weblog — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:20:47 +0000

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By: teknobabble

teknobabble — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:57:07 +0000

Dane,

I had mutiple problems with Vista on the Dell 9400.

In the end I did a complete re-install of Vista using a fresh OEM copy.

That cost money, but the resulting system now seems much more stable.

By: Dane

Dane — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:45:24 +0000

I have a question: In the registry of the Dell Inspiron 9400 (Vista) I had two listings for Sonic: One was simply called Sonic which I deleted according to your instructions, the other is called “Sonic Solutions”. That has two “subfiles”, one called explorer.exe and the other wmplayer.exe
Do I have to delete this “Sonic Solutions” as well as the “Sonic” ?

I am hoping that this deletion of Roxio will improve start-up time, normally around 20 minutes !!! A disgusting state of affairs compared to my Toshiba with XP which takes about 2 minutes to be fully up and running when I switch it on.

By: mo

mo — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:08:51 +0000

thank you :]

By: roxio hatr

roxio hatr — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:59:59 +0000

thx so much, I don;t understand why they would make such horrible program!

By: kayzer

kayzer — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:39:24 +0000

hi !
is there any utility that force uninstall ? i need a remover that do all operations automatically?

From teknobabble….

I’m sorry I don’t know of any utility – but just using Control Panel then Add/remove programs worked ok and quite quickly for me.