Re: [Gimp-user] Uninstalling Gimp crashes computer

[Dan Kronstadt <subs kronhead com>]

Marci - I am a newbie with Gimp, but I might be able to help with the 
windows issues.

When ofnuts said "As far as I remember the Gimp Windows installation is 
all under the Gimp installation tree" I think he meant it is all in the 
"C:\Program Files" directory - so you could pretty much delete the GIMP 
sub-directory (in my case, it's "C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0") and 
everything would be gone. You might want to rename it and leave it there 
for a while, so you can put it back if things get worse. At some point, 
you would also want to delete the entries from the Start Menu - for 
Vista, look in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\GIMP.

But - here's a couple of other things to do first:
- if you don't know for sure where your daughter downloaded Gimp from, 
then a virus scan might be a good idea. Maybe she got a version that was 
infected from a virus. Or maybe she downloaded something else besides Gimp.
- You said "... the location of the Gimp folder on the c drive?  I did 
go out there and try to uninstall or delete from there, but when I do so 
now, I get a message that the path refers to a location that is 
unavailable." Where did you go, specifically, and what did you do to get 
that error message? You should not get that if you were just DELETING 
gimp, rather than uninstalling.
- often you can fix a partial install or uninstall problem by doing a 
new install. That should overlay a clean installation copy over whatever 
you have, and then an uninstall may work. Now, some windows programs 
insist on uninstalling first as part of their install process. If Gimp 
does that, you may have a problem. But you can give it a try. Do a fresh 
download of Gimp first.

If you need more help, please specify what version of Windows you use - 
XP, Vista, Windows 7 - and whether it is 32bit or 64bit.

Good luck!
Dan