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longtony
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New person...want to uninstall

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I thought this would be super simple and easy to do. I downloaded the "4.4 Beta Release - r3338 | November 19, 2019" and it was 860GB....now I can't uninstall. Will someone please help me? Everything I go to uninstall, it just says "NSIS Error | Error launching installer". I have tried from both the Control Panel and the apps and features window.

I do not want this on my computer anymore. This is super frustrating. Can someone please point me in the right direction?
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longtony wrote: February 2nd, 2020, 9:18 pm I downloaded the "4.4 Beta Release - r3338 | November 19, 2019" and it was 860GB....now I can't uninstall.
:x :o 860GB??? :o :x
Never download Rainmeter from other site than https://www.rainmeter.net/. The installer package is around a few MB (the mentioned version, r3338, has exactly 2,37 MB), not more hundreds GB.
Not sure what you could do. Probably a virus, malware or something like this is involved. An antivirus might help, but unfortunately I'm not sure.
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https://www.rainmeter.net/ is where I downloaded this from. When you go to that website, do you not see the beta for download on the homepage?
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longtony wrote: February 2nd, 2020, 9:34 pm https://www.rainmeter.net/ is where I downloaded this from. When you go to that website, do you not see the beta for download on the homepage?
But yes, I see it:
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Just downloaded. As said the downloaded package has 2.37 MB. And it really is so large, certainly not 860 GB.
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Well I clicked on that, it downloaded the installer, and it began to install. Once I saw how large the file was, I tried to stop the install, but it wouldn't let me. How are you clicking on the exact same link and getting a different file but I am not?
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longtony wrote: February 2nd, 2020, 9:43 pm How are you clicking on the exact same link and getting a different file but I am not?
I definitely would launch an antivirus on your computer.
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I did, and currently there are no threats. But to not be able to uninstall this is quite frustrating.
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To manually uninstall, just delete the following 3 folders:

C:\Program Files\Rainmeter
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Rainmeter
C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Rainmeter

Rainmeter should not be running when you do this, and when deleting the first folder Windows may prompt you for elevation.
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I DL it from there and it's 2,430 KB
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CyberTheWorm wrote: February 3rd, 2020, 7:16 am I DL it from there and it's 2,430 KB
That's exactly what I also said: https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?p=171204#p171201.