How do you totally remove a program from WinXP Pro?

When you want to remove a program the FIRST place you should go is Control
Panel\Add Remove programs and remove it there. Using any other method leaves
the program orphaned in Add\REmove Programs.

310750 Removing Invalid Entries in the Add/Remove Programs Tool
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310750

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Thanks,
Marc Reynolds
Microsoft Technical Support

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"Elroy" <edenn@charter.net> wrote in message
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> I used Norton's Clean Sweep to remove a program from my computer. I went

to the file folder and removed the remaining files and folders, then I went
to REGEDIT, and went to
Hkey_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Uninstall, and
deleted the key for the program I wanted to uninstall. I have rebooted, gone
to the control panel/add_delete programs, and it still shows in the list of
programs, but it does not have an option to remove it. It just says, "Used
ocassionally"

>
> When I try to install a new version of the software that I am trying to

delete, I get the message that a previous version of this software must be
removed before I can install the new version. How do I remove this program
from my computer completely?