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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Removing Limeware -- and getting disk space back

I have been asked to clean up a laptop that was having problems with "disk full" messages. I have not managed to remove Limewire successfully (the uninstall file was corrupt) and there is now a lot of space I cannot recover. Pete Challis

Limewire has a reputation for being tricky to remove (I'd never install it in the first place), but it does have an uninstallation utility. If this fails, your best bet is to reinstall it and try again. If you have to do it the hard way, there is a list of the registry entries here.

Otherwise, it can help to restart an unclean machine using an Ultimate Boot CD for Windows, such as UBCD4Win. A web search for [Ultimate Boot CD] will find lots of information.

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