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[James]

I would like to take Opera off of my system completely. So far I've gone the Add/Remove method but left one file behind since it said there might be a conflict with other programs. I see from my Windows Explorer that I still have the Opera folder under Programs. Can I safely delete it in its entirety?

Secondly, should I do a search for all instances of Opera and delete them?

What is your experience with completely removing Opera?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax)

[Al]

I would like to take Opera off of my system completely. So far I've gone the Add/Remove method but left one file behind since it said there might be a conflict with other programs. I see from my Windows Explorer that I still have the Opera folder under Programs. Can I safely delete it in its entirety?

Secondly, should I do a search for all instances of Opera and delete them?

What is your experience with completely removing Opera?

I remember just deleting it and it was final, That was 7.23 my first Opera verison

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

[Al]

I would like to take Opera off of my system completely. So far I've gone the Add/Remove method but left one file behind since it said there might be a conflict with other programs. I see from my Windows Explorer that I still have the Opera folder under Programs. Can I safely delete it in its entirety?

Secondly, should I do a search for all instances of Opera and delete them?

What is your experience with completely removing Opera?

I remember just deleting it and it was final, That was 7.23 my first Opera verison

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

[Al]

Please ignore one, the Forum had an error and it said [tt]FAILED SENDING EMail PHP"[/tt]

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

[Svedman]

Deleting the Opera directory doesn't cause any problems.

If you're not sure whether you have a multi-user install of Opera or not, you should check under C:\Documents and Settings for any instances of Opera too.

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.60 [en] (IBM EVV/3.0/EAK01AG9/LE)

[Edward]

I've never permanently uninstalled Opera, but once it is uninstalled, it should be OK to delete the Opera directory in C:\Program Files.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

[Jeffredo]

Hi James. Opera is in two main locations. The program file and the profile file. To delete the profile (which remains after an uninstall) make sure you change your files to "show hidden files" and go to C:Documents and Settings/user name/application data/Opera. If you're not going to use Opera anymore you might as well delete it too.

UserAgent: Opera/7.54 (Windows NT 5.1; U) [en]

[jksteinhauer]

Yeah, that's similar to what I did when I upgraded from versions 6 (or 5), there was a separate file for the prior that was recommended to uninstall and then delete, no problems. Pretty sure the same should work for 7.
I keep looking in and upgrading periodically on Opera primarily because I shelled out the $39 a few years ago to have a registered version and get rid of the ads, I figure - hell, I paid for it, may as well keep it but I must admit, I rarely use it for everyday purposes; the email (M-2 client) severely pales in comparison to Mozilla - suite and Tbird, even Outlook and Outlook Express as a matter of fact (which I haven't even used since 1998) and plug-in installation is still a big gripe of mine with Opera, even after all these years. My opinion has been all along that at best Opera's a somewhat viable 3rd place contender, even after all these years ...

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.54 [en]

[James]

Thanks for the advice. I've long since removed Opera having followed Jeffredo's advice. I too paid for it to get rid of the confounded ads but I don't care about the $39. I used it for several months and more or less hated it, ending with 7.54. M2 may be the darling of the geeks and have great business applications but for the average Joe like me, who receives six emails a day it is OVERKILL in the extreme. Why they decided to get rid of the terminology and call them views rather than boxes is beyond me.. particularly when every other cotton pickin' email client follows the same terminology.

And I must admit... their forum is the worst. They will attack anyone who expresses the least disagreement with Opera's software. Talk about rabid fans. Finally they have listened and given an easier and more user-friendly default GUI to the first timer in their latest beta... 7.6 but I'm no longer interested. I happen to be a Mozilla/Netscape user and always will be.

Anyway... Opera is gone... bye bye.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax)

[jksteinhauer]

Thanks for the advice. I've long since removed Opera having followed Jeffredo's advice. I too paid for it to get rid of the confounded ads but I don't care about the $39. I used it for several months and more or less hated it, ending with 7.54. M2 may be the darling of the geeks and have great business applications but for the average Joe like me, who receives six emails a day it is OVERKILL in the extreme. Why they decided to get rid of the terminology and call them views rather than boxes is beyond me.. particularly when every other cotton pickin' email client follows the same terminology.

And I must admit... their forum is the worst. They will attack anyone who expresses the least disagreement with Opera's software. Talk about rabid fans. Finally they have listened and given an easier and more user-friendly default GUI to the first timer in their latest beta... 7.6 but I'm no longer interested. I happen to be a Mozilla/Netscape user and always will be.

Anyway... Opera is gone... bye bye.

Pretty much my same sentiment in different words. Have been using some version of Netscape and/or Mozilla since my earliest days on the internet - even weathered the Netscape 6 storm (by sticking with 4.xx) and I'm very proud of the work that's continuing.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041008

[Edward]

And I must admit... their forum is the worst. They will attack anyone who expresses the least disagreement with Opera's software. Talk about rabid fans. Finally they have listened and given an easier and more user-friendly default GUI to the first timer in their latest beta... 7.6 but I'm no longer interested. I happen to be a Mozilla/Netscape user and always will be.

Unfortunately, you are going to find people like that, everywhere, not just on Opera's forums.

I haven't seen the beta of 7.6 yet, I'm still using 7.54 here.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

[Jeffredo]

That can be true Edward. This forum is the most civil I seen yet! I must agree with James though. The Opera Forums can be a very "aggressive" place to post a thread (and the mods really don't "moderate" such behavior as long as you're an unquestioning Opera fan). It's kind of sad and pathetic at times.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax)

[Edward]

The new version (7.6) has an option to turn off the M2 e-mail/news client at installation, so it can be used only as a browser.

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; X11; Linux i586) Opera 7.54 [en]