How do you uninstall MeGUI?

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How do you uninstall MeGUI?

Postby jasper-isis » Fri Aug 04, 2006 11:04 pm

I installed MeGUI to experiment with x264. Then I realized that the version of DGIndex it came packaged with broke all the current d2v projects I had. D'oh.

So I want to uninstall MeGUI, since I've decided not to use it for now anyway. But it doesn't show up under Windows' add/remove software list, and it doesn't appear to come with an uninstaller. Okay, I've never uninstalled anything before (besides like, spyware) without either one of those, so how would I go about uninstalling this now?

Would I be better off just recreating my d2v files? :?
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Postby Qyot27 » Sat Aug 05, 2006 12:43 am

That seems strange, since it does appear on my Add/Remove Programs list, and DGIndex hasn't been acting wonky either (especially considering that the version I index with is 1.4.6, and the version of DGDecode is 1.4.8, which I assume is what MeGUI had installed - I didn't even know they were mismatched :shock: ).

Have you updated through MeGUI to the latest versions? Or is that what caused the problem? In either case, it should be possible to simply get the right version of DGDecode.dll from the official site and replace the one that's in AviSynth's plugins folder with the version that matches the version of DGIndex you used before. Just go into the version of DGIndex you used to make the d2vs that don't work now, and then to Help->About DGIndex, and it'll have a version number. Just download that version number's package from the site, unzip it, and swap the DGDecode.dll in AviSynth's plugins folder with the one from that package.

If you can update MeGUI, it might give you the uninstaller program. The update function should either pop up on its own, or it can be found in Tools->Update. If it's not there, I would be under the impression that it's an old version of MeGUI that didn't have the capacity to update, but I didn't think those versions came packaged with AviSynth plugins and whatnot.

Otherwise, I guess you could just delete MeGUI's directory. I wouldn't assume it has anything system-vital in it (didn't seem to before, at any rate - then again, I just unpacked it out of a zip file in those instances, not through an installer), and if you run something like CCleaner and/or go into regedit, hunt down all references to MeGUI and delete those too, it should be alright.
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Postby jasper-isis » Sun Aug 06, 2006 2:35 pm

Thanks. The plugin swap did the trick. It turns out that I was still using DGIndex version 1.2.1.

I still find it odd that MeGUI doesn't have an uninstaller though. I have the newest version, installed from an executable just a few days ago and updated right after installation. Everything seemed to update fine except for the Nero AAC encoder. Now that I've tried x264 I don't think I'll be settling with it for a while, so I'm still gonna try to get MeGUI off my computer somehow. Thanks for the tips.
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