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Tips and Tricks03 October 20031 min read

Manually Removing a Vignette Installation

If you've got one or more CDS or OMS machines installed and the CMS has been removed, going into Add / Remove Programs and trying to uninstall Vignette will fail. You'll get a message that Vignette must be “unconfigured…

  1. Stop all services and set them to Disabled. Depending on what's installed, there may or may not be any services to disable. Reboot after disabling them.
  2. In the C:\Vignette directory there's a file called insts.cfg. Delete it.
  3. Go to Add / Remove Programs again and uninstall Vignette. This removes all the Vignette binaries, etc. but leaves the Vignette directory behind.
  4. Delete the Vignette directory. Ignore the warning dialog.
  5. Reboot. The removal's complete. Any docroot directories, etc. remaining in Inetpub or other locations still need to be removed at your discretion.

remaining in Inetpub or other locations still need to be removed at your discretion.