How to uninstall a codec properly?

[grendizer]

If the codec was installed by an install.exe, I would just run the uninstall program.
If the codec does not have an uninstall program, I could go to Gspot in advanced mode and unregister the codec from here.
But the codec is just unregistered, it is still on the hard drive. Yes I could delete the *.ax file on the hard drive, but perhaps I will miss some components.
So is there a clean way to fully uninstall a codec if there's no uninstall program?

[drewzor]

codec sniper < personally never worked for me..
I go in manually
Open
C:\windows\system32\
and Open Regedit
LM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Dri vers32
Its usefull to have AVIcodec a program that identifies the codecs

Remove the DLL and the Regitry Reference to that DLL and its Gone for ever.

[waheed]

Codec Sniper works very well for me

[celtic_druid]

From the original post they are talking about directshow filters, not codecs though.

Yes, unregistering and deleting the ax file will do it.

For VfW codec's, there are a few more registry filters that you might want to clean out (such as HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\MediaResourc es\icm), but they aren't as important.

If a dshow filter did have an uninstaller, all it would do is unregister and delete the file.

[lordsmurf]

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