From: paladin@world.std.com (Thomas G Schlatter)
Subject: Re: Tidying up after removing an OLE server
Keywords: OLE, SPSS
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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In article <C5y121.Kz3@liverpool.ac.uk> qq43@liverpool.ac.uk (Chris Wooff) writes:
>A while ago I installed SPSS for Windows as part of an evaluation. Once
>the evaluation was complete I duly deleted the software from my PC.
>
>Unfortunately there is still a "ghost" of SPSS left: when I run
>something like "Write" and go to embed an object then "SPSS Chart"
>appears on the list of objects I'm offered. I looked around all
>the obvious "INI" files without success. The next thing I tried
>was looking for the string "SPSS Chart" in every file in the 
>Windows directory. It turned up in a file called REQ.DAT (or
>REG.DAT). Unfortunately the file was binary and so I didn't feel
>inclined to edit it.
>
>I'd welcome a solution for removing SPSS from the list of OLE servers.
 I think you can do this with REGEDIT, which can make changes
to the OLE registration database.  From Program Manager (or 
File Manager) choose RUN and type REGEDIT.  You do have it-
its included with Windows, but not well documented.

Tom
paladin@world.std.com

