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[TeeJay3800]

I recently switched from Firefox to Opera and ran FF's uninstall progam. Afterward, FF's Program Files folder was still there (which I deleted) and there were several Mozilla entries in the registry (which I deleted). However, Firefox still appears under the applications tab in CCleaner. Apparently CCleaner thinks Firefox is still installed, even though I've gone to great lenths to remove every FF-related item from the computer. What can I do to convince CCleaner than Firefox is no longer installed?

[CTskifreak]

I had the same problem...click here.

AJ

[TeeJay3800]

Thanks for the link, but I'm not sure I see a solution there. The registry entries that the Winapp file points too have already been deleted. I thought getting rid of all Mozilla entries would tell CCleaner that FF has been uninstalled, but it hasn't.

[unsober]

see this post:
http://forum.pirifor...showtopic=12077


you can fix it by deleting the Firefox folder in your application data
C:\Documents and Settings\*Username*\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\

(*username* = your windows login name)

might want to browse that folder for other uninstalled programs too..
orphaned files like to hide in there.

[TeeJay3800]

Thanks a lot! That did it!

I had to enable the ability to view hidden files/folders, but I was able to clean up many old folders from App Data.