How to clear the residue items of Control Panel after Win8.1 uninstall program

A netizen reflects that in the Win8.1 system, the installation of incompatible software Uninstall, the Control Panel appears residue items can not be deleted. Although the impact is not very large, we should also understand how to remove these residues of the project.

"Add or Remove Programs" in Control Panel is a common method of uninstalling software. However, after some software has been uninstalled, its program name (such as Voptxp V7.12) will remain in Add or Remove Programs, even if you click the "Change/Remove" button.

　　Solving method

Select "Start → run" in turn, in the pop-up Run dialog box, enter the "Regedit" command to open Registry Editor, first click "Export Registry File" under the registry File menu to back up the registry, delete later if the problem, you can restore the original registry.

Next, navigate to the following location Hkey_lo-cal_machinesoftwaremicrosoftwindowscurrentversionuninstall, locate the remaining program name (for example, Voptxp V7.12) and delete it.

In order to completely uninstall the clean, you should also select the "edit → find" menu command in the registry. Open the Find dialog box, enter the name of the program you want to uninstall in Find target, locate and delete the item associated with the program, and then use the Find Next command to locate and delete all of the program's items.

In addition to using the system's own "Add or Remove Programs" function to uninstall the software, such as Jinshan poison PA and other Third-party security software also has program uninstall function, but also in the uninstall after the registration of residual items. We can try.