I have just spent ages trying to undo a silly mistake that I made in installing an old Lotus Smartsuite CD on to my new laptop.
One silly mistake was that I should probably never have used it, as the only files I used it to create were some old school documents which I’ll never use again.
The other silly mistake was that the thing kept popping up all the time when I hadn’t asked for it, so I decided to uninstall it.
That silly mistake became apparent when I found that I couldn’t uninstall it because it said it was running. I couldn’t locate the ‘running’ files, so I couldn’t stop them.
Eventually, the only way I could get rid of the thing was go use ‘System Restore’ to go back to the situation before I had stupidly installed the Lotus crap.
That worked, but of course I then had to re-install some things which had also been installed in the interim period.
The Lotus disc is now residing in the rubbish bin!
Yes done that, and system restore once would not correct the flaw…
Ended up reinstalling the whole system again…this was on a desktop wired PC…the only thing I got confused with was the partitions…done that by guessimating…
Oh yes, I was aware that it was no longer supported. It was the 1997 version, so I wasn’t surprised. Still, I’d have thought that Windows would have been able to uninstall the software.
Well, it did actually, through good-old System Restore!
When I first opened System Restore it showed only one restore point which was a date after I had installed Lotus, so using that wouldn’t get rid of it.
There is a button to look for alternative restore points which, for some reason, are not listed initially, but if you were to try that you might find a date that would have been more suitable - ie, before you installed the naughty software.
Actually, that’s irrelevant now as I see that you’ve sorted the problem.
@JbrLWP to DOC | CloudConvert seems to be a way of using a third party to convert lwp to doc files without having to install anything. Free up to a certain number, which I doubt you’d reach anyway.
@Omah - I often want to convert pdf to doc format. Alas, since these mostly involve diagrams and maths symbols, I’ve yet to find one that actually works, and I can’t really justify the expense of buying/subscribing to acrobat pro.
I’ve run this and found it to be impressive.
I was slightly worried initially as it seemed to be removing all sorts, but after it had finished everything seems to be working properly. Just a couple of desktop shortcuts had disappeared, but now restored.
Is it worth paying for the ‘Donor’ version? What else of importance do you get?
