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June 18, 2007
Question

Cannot Uninstall CF 7 from Vista

  • June 18, 2007
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Hi,

I installed ColdFusion 7 on Vista Ultimate. Now I want to uninstall
ColdFusion but when I go to Control Panel -> Programs and Features and click
on Uninstall/Change, I get a message saying that "You do not have sufficent
access to uninstall Macromedia ColdFusion MX7. Please contact your system
administrator."

I installed ColdFusion MX7 as admin and when I am trying to uninstall I am
logged on as admin. In fact Admin is the only user account I have on the PC.

Can someone help me uninstalling ColdFusion MX 7 from Vista Ulitmate?

Thanks for your help and time in advance.

Joe
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Participant
June 30, 2007
I had a similar problem, but as pcbrown suggests just run the uninstaller.exe in the CFunsionMX7 > uninstall folder and that will uninstall the application.
June 18, 2007
I recently uninstalled 7 from Vista Home Premium. The initial uninstall proceeded but wasn't clean, so I reinstalled and uninstalled again and it went without a hitch.

Have you stopped the services manually before uninstalling, or are you letting the uninstaller stop them?

I don't have Vista in front of me right now, but is there a way perhaps to run the uninstaller as an Admin (right click, Run as Admininstrator)?

That might not be possible in the Add/Remove Programs window, but under CFusionMX7 there's a folder named uninstall, with an uninstaller exe...perhaps run that as an Admin with a right-click? NOTE: That's just a thought, I haven't tried it and can't vouch for it!!

Good luck.
Inspiring
June 18, 2007
> I installed ColdFusion 7 on Vista Ultimate. Now I want to uninstall
> ColdFusion but when I go to Control Panel -> Programs and Features and
> click
> on Uninstall/Change, I get a message saying that "You do not have
> sufficent
> access to uninstall Macromedia ColdFusion MX7. Please contact your system
> administrator."

I don't even have vista but I've seen messages where someone said
that Vista is a little funny in this way. There is a user called admin
which you have to log out of and then login as admin - the admin
of the machine.