Off Topic: Not sure why it’s saying United States next to Schenectady, NY, but *Shrug*. Even updating my account file had no luck.
On Topic:
The computer I am on is Vista (came with the PC), but my issue has also happened on XP as well.
In a Nutshell:
– Uninstalled Installed Program via Add/Remove
– Clicked on old downloaded install file
– Opens program up ready to be used as if installed
– Nowhere to be found on hard drive nor in Add/Remove
-Still works fine, but no icon to click on for Later use
-Downloading new install file with no override to old, still no luck
-Hard reboot didn’t help
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Long version, read below.
It has only happened to me three times in total over the 10+ years I’ve dealt with PCs, and all deal with media. First two times were on XP with iTunes and Winamp. The third was on here with VLC (just now with VLC).
After they were installed, at some point in the future I had to uninstall them, via updates or other means.
Anyway, after the first uninstall, I would double click on the install icon, but I wouldn’t get the file directory asking me where to install, it would just open the program as if it was still installed.
Yet, when I do searches on my HDD, it’s nowhere to be found. No icon to click to open at later use, not even in the control panel’s Add/Remove list after I uninstalled from there.
As for the other two times, I would download the file instead of using the old one on desktop, and save it elsewhere so there was no overwrite of the old file just to be safe. Same outcome.
All three files still play the music and videos just fine, but since I couldn’t install them properly, I had no icon to put on the task bar for me to open them at a later use.
I even did a hard boot, and still no luck.
