Re: [Gimp-user] Uninstalling Gimp crashes computer

[Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com>]

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Ofnuts <ofnuts laposte net> wrote:
> On 01/06/2012 06:20 PM, Marci Davis wrote:
>
> My 11-year old daughter installed Gimp on our laptop.  Shortly after, we
> started having trouble with speed and resolution.  Gimp will not open, nor
> can we uninstall it.  In fact, when I try, it crashes the computer.  Any
> suggestions?
>
>
> There are two reputable places to get Gimp Windows installers:  the gimp-win
> project on sourceforge (http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/) for the 2.4 & 2.6
> versions and Partha's site for 2.7 (http://partha.com/). Everything else is
> a bit suspiscious, and could have included unwanted software (trojan or
> else). Or it's a mere chronological coincidence and Gimp isn't implied (if
> you let your 11-yo install anything on your computer, goes know what else
> got installed).
>
> As far as I remember the Gimp Windows installation is all under the Gimp
> installation tree (no DLLs copied to Windows directories) and it doesn't set
> anything in the registry, so erasing the installation tree may be sufficient
> to uninstall it completely.
>
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My version comes with an installer which you will not copy anything to
the Windows directory. Also, to uninstall, simply go to the control
panel, and uninstall.

Partha