Gadgetopia

So bloody true!

I've often wondered about that myself and have often times thought that those programs that monitor your processes in real time (possibly defeating the purpose, huh?) and then give you info on who published that process, if it is critical or not, etc....I mean, sometimes its easy to tell that LEXMKPD is for my lexmark printer but other times its not nearly that simple....

Media Players are the worst at this. Both Quicktime and the Realplayer insist on running at startup, and if you delete their registry key it will just be recreated whenever you open their player next. What possible reason could I have for wanting Quicktime or Realplayer to be running all of the time?

The InstallShield Update Manager not only checks for updates to InstallShield products, but for updates to all applications that make use of InstallShield's Update Service, which works somewhat similar to Windows Update but can be used by any third party.

How do you get rid of it?

"How do you get rid of it?"

This thing has been a thorn in my side for quite some time as well. I decided to Google it this morning and found this link, rated as 1. I haven't tried the uninstall utility yet, so I can't comment on the efficacy of it - all I can say is that if it works, then glory be!

http://consumer.installshield.com/kb.asp?id=Q111006

Oh, click on Stefan Krueger's name - it looks like a promising link.

All I would like to do is send a money-order for these services. I do not put any vitals in these gum-ball machines for security purposes............s.o.s.

Never mind, I'll just walk !!

Forget it, that "uninstaller" mereley almost disables it. Running programs that are set up to use the installshield update manager will sometimes activate and run the installshield manager, after this utility supposedly uninstalls it.

The only effective way is to clear the associated entries from your registry and delete the files under "update manager" in "program files/common files/install shield/". At least that's the only luck I've had with it.

I would like to know if you could publish all the registry entries that you had to clear to remove this program.

It infuriates me that companies would install this crap on my system as part of regular updates I do to my software, this is done even without notifying me at install time.

Does anyone know how to get rid of an installshield "Update Manager" message that pops up every time I boot up my desktop on my new Dell Inspiron? It says: "The old version of the agent is installed" Then it directs me to go to the Installshield web site, which is uninformative! Thanks.

It's annoying enough that this program seems to have just magically appeared on my system. But what's worse is that the automatic update functionality of the InsallShield Update Manager does not seem to work at all.

On many machines, I have the Update Manager set to Check for Updates weekly (under "Update Settings"). The description of this setting is that "The InstallShield Update Manager will automatically check for updates on the frequency you specify. If updates are available, you will see an icon alerting you that updates are available..."

But this is not what happens. What happens is just that the Update Manager opens every week. It does not check for updates. I have to manually check for updates by clicking "Check for Updates Now" on the main page after it opens. This is, it is not automatically checking for updates, as it should be.

Installshield offers an uninstall program to remove the Update Manager. (http://consumer.installshield.com/kb.asp?id=Q111006).

You can get around all of these problems in 1 easy step.

buy a mac.

:)

sensi 2006 isn't out for the mac, twat.

Yeah, only because macs account for a small percentage of the personal computer market, and software developers generally don't give a shit about that platform.

this thing called uninstall on their pages, http://consumer.installshield.com/kb.asp?id=Q111006 , doesn't work for me. It removed update manager from my control panel, but there is another instance of program which is in start>all programs which is running, as if I didn't uninstall anything.

Nice one Chuck. Another useful comment by another typical mac user. I bet that the answer to all questions in life isn't it?

Q. I can't find the remote for the TV. A. "buy a mac."

Q. I have a flat battery in my car. A. "buy a mac".

Q. Hey there's no cheese on my hamburger. A.. "buy a mac".

How naive are these mac users? I believe the marketing campaign for mac users should be "Buy one if you are hopeless with computers".

I was hunting for my installshield remover this morning and quite enjoyed the posts here even though I have not yet been able to remove the stuff from my laptop ;)

Any case, a Mac can be a beautiful piece of furniture in your home. There is not much use of it other than being a show piece. My two cents.

I uninstalled Corel Paint & Photo Album from my new Dell - trial versions that were really annoying - and InstallShield Manager seems to have disappeared! Maybe it will work for you too if you can track down the software it is linked too, as I accidentally seem to have done