NOTICE TO PEOPLE HAVING TROUBLE UNINSTALLING

If you are trying to uninstall IE 7, but the uninstaller hangs when it is
updating the registry, try this.

Press the Windows Key + R
Type "regedit" and press Enter
Navigate on the right through HKEY_CURRENT_USER / AppEvents / Schemes /
Apps / Explorer / FeedDiscovered
remove the "[]" after "kon0" by right clicking on the kon0 folder and select
"rename"

The uninstaller should now complete successfully.

 

IE7 comes with an installer, which is thoroughly documented on other posts.
In the Add/Remove Programs app, click the "Show Updates" box at the top, then
scroll down until you find the IE7 Beta. The other option is to enter in the
run dialogue "%windir%\$NtUninstallie7bet2p$\spuninst\spuninst.exe" verbatim.

 

I have that very problem, but have no Kon0[] key.
I do have a ajhd0[] key but removing the "[]" did nothing.

Any other ideas?

 

I also had a esljh0ö key so removed the "ö" too and it worked.

Thx

 

I noticed that the uninstaller was hanging at a specific point, and my
processor usage was at 100% the whole time, so the uninstaller was stuck in a
loop. I used the program Regmon from
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html to figure out which
registry key(s) were causing the problems.

Monitor the keys being searched for by the uninstaller and then go to that
place in the registry to see if there are invalid characters or something
else that the uninstaller can't handle.

just to be safe, I was using [] in my posts to represent the box placeholder
for characters