Recently, I have to uninstall 2 programs that I don’t need anymore, IoIsland’s Placesbar Tweaker and Eusing Software’s Fast Folder Access. I just use normal Windows Add or Remove program but interestingly it give me error Could not open INSTALL.LOG file. Thats weird, so tried to uninstall using start menu but it still give me the same error.
I guess maybe the installation was corrupted or the file install.log was missing or it got read only attribute so I open the program install location in program files, the file was there and it is not read only. The file install.log also not empty in-case it lost some installation info. Then I tried to run UNWISE.EXE which is the uninstaller of Wise Installer but still got the same error. I even re-install the program but still not success… WTF Wise Installer.
After fiddle around the files for a while I found out the solution. Here is how you do it without having to manually remove all the files and registry entry.
- Navigate to program’s installation folder
- Cut or move the INSTALL.LOG to somewhere else. eg: desktop or my documents. Reminder: Move the file, not copy.
- Run the uninstaller and it will ask you to locate the INSTALL.LOG file.
- Select the file you move earlier and voila the crap uninstalled!
Easy right? If you still have problem with it just leave comment below and I’ll try to answer it 
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