LoginX Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Hello guys! I have a problem and hoping you guys have a solution for it. I'm trying to update cometbird to the latest version but failed. It keeps saying the message in the quote. When I trying to uninstall Cometbird something popup and it says: Your Computer must be restarted to complete a previous upgrade of Cometbird.Do you want to reboot now? And I clicked yes. Then after restarting, I open control panel and click uninstall...same thing happen. LoginX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The UnUsual Suspect Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 It sounds like you uninstalled it before the update finished. Try this... start>run Then type "msconfig" and hit "enter" Look on the "startup" tab and find an entry for cometbird update and uncheck it. Then when you restart, if everything works normally you can save the changes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoginX Posted September 18, 2011 Author Share Posted September 18, 2011 Sorry but I cannot find it! But I did find a blank with no name startup item. Even the command or item file/:c is blank. I really cannot uninstall it nor install another new version of it. :( I want to use cometbird because it's lighter than firefox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kluelos Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Try a utility called autoruns. It's freeware, available out there on the net. It will show you/let you control everything about your computer's startup. It's pretty intimidating, so look mostly at the "Logon" tab, and the first few entries. This is where you'll find the major things that are set to automatically start. You can uncheck them, and (usually) you can right-click them and delete them. This should help you find and get rid of your blank entry (as well as many other things you may not want). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoginX Posted September 20, 2011 Author Share Posted September 20, 2011 So How can I uninstall cometbird? I really can't! Restarted it and still the same result! Any Cometbird remover tool? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The UnUsual Suspect Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 post a screenshot showing all the startup items in the msconfig utility, or try the app kluelos suggested. Once you break the vicious circle of the failed installation, you can then reinstall the product. You might also want to have a look on firefox support forum. Cometbird uses firefox source code so any bugs related to installation will be shared across both platforms. Also I'll add that with millions of users, we've never seen this problem before, so I suspect something else is going on with this system, perhaps some malware? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kluelos Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 That blank entry in msconfig tells me you've got registry problems. Autoruns might be able to clean that up, but you're honestly at the point of needing to reinstall Windows. Anything you can salvage short of that is gravy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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