how to uninstall OneNote

Dear Apuharmi,

Apology duly noted! However, if you were at it night and day for forty-five years trying to improve your thinking processes as I have, to compensate for my physical disabilities, then you will understand where I am coming from and where I am at. I like Microsoft's hardware like their mice and programmable keyboards making it easier for me, but all I am doing is to be totally aware what going on when you use Windows XP on UP! And I have written a synopsis for myself as to make it easier to work with Windows XP or 7, Maybe I am trying to share these discoveries what it can or can not do. And what Microsoft is doing about it. As much as I comment about Windows and Office, I will always use them to my advantage. I really am a very sharp programmer, who rewrote Commodore DOS as to do what needed to do as what Windows is doing now on my SX-64 and the Commodore C-128 working in tandem as ONE PC!  I even had the Texas Instruments TI-99/4 and the TI-99/4A Home computer up to its max capacity running with 4 5¼-inch double sided double density floppies working in TMS 9900 Assembly language along with its TI Extended Basic. And worked as a tech support solely for Olympic Sales company from 1979 to 1981... I also serviced what I sold during business hours and after hours... One of my accomplishments was how the Neilson Rating was formulated which I did for KCBS  Channel 2 in 1980, before it was done on the modern day computers. As much, I was constantly on the phone answering the customer's questions, I was credited as being more than a MVP in the sales department. I went every computer seminar paid by the boss, because I knew more than anyone else as even to sell the first Apple II and III computers. I have taken data processing and accounting in the years following high school and astounded the teachers in college as to how exactly the IBM 402 accounting machines worked as that is simple arithmetic in adding and subtracting on an old 10-key adding machine. I had plenty of time between rounds in Security to study up on the classes I took in electronics and data processing as to formulate my own batch processing even with the TI-59 at the time that carried over to the TI-99/4 and the Commodore SX-64 and C-128. It is when my younger brother gave me my first modern day PC tower It scream how I made it work better than new!!! He was amazed on what I did to the 566i e Machine.. It has been documented that Windows 98 SE has a fatal flaw built into it long after I discovered it. IT would not shut down after the content index took over. I could not properly shut the PC down with Windows 98. Most of these discovers were with Windows 98 that I am using with Windows XP and 7 as Microsoft does not tell you it is doing! Instead just tell you briefly what I did with the 566i PC:

It came with a DVD ROM Drive in the top 5¼-inch bay that was barely working, and the bottom bay had a CD RAM drive, a 3½-inch Floppy drive, and two hard disk drive as an 8 GB drive as drive letter C and a 20 GB drive for drive letter D and 256 MB of RAM and 2 USB 1.1 ports. It had a MAD DOG sound card that was good even now is in one of other towers, and a Fax/modem PCI card and the bottom PCI card slot was empty.

Like I have said in my last email I also got that as I paid $300.00 for the T1090 e Machine as it came with a 20 GB Seagate IDE drive working with XP with a service pack... It bombed out and lost the initial CD drive... I had to replace it to reboot Windows... I discovered that they both had the same video chip an Intel 81010, and I also discovered that its GMA drivers also made the 566i e Machine go TURBO! I mean four times as quick. I had the 566i bomb more than once with Windows 98, it even scarred 24 sectors of the 8 GB drive that was in it trying to shut it down! Hence I lost Windows 98... By then I put in four new hard disk drives from WD from 160 to 320 GB and needed the CD RAM drive only to get a clean boot of Windows XP from the T1090, I had to call Microsoft to have it activated because I did not want to use the Internet until I knew more about what I want my PCs to be. I subsequently took out those PCI cards and got three with 4 +1 USB ports as to improve its performance. it ended up with six hard disk drives one was a WD 160 GB Passport that was attached to one of the PCI cards on the inside and one 3½-inch 500 GB IDE drive attached to a Rosewill USB to IDE adaptor, plus other hardware and It had about a terabyte and a quarter drive space inside with ten partitions as to add to the page file. To get past the 137 GB limitation I used Seagate's DDO, Direct Drive Overlay and I was able to reformat its drives capacity. I did this not once, but five times in the course of its history when it finally blew out the second IDE channel. It has since been scrapped and all that was left was its power supply and the motherboard. The drives I still have working as inside the original IDE/SATA I/O Magic enclosure and hence been reformatted and in use. Also my younger brother has given me the 400idx e Machine tower with Windows 2000 Pro and a makeshift PC with a Gateway motherboard. The power and drive lights were not connected because the connections were not there on the motherboard. Here I added the second IDE RACK to cover the top 5¼-inch opening and insert the 3½-inch drive in its tray and it had the drive and power lights.

The 400idx e Machine did not come with a case fan, and I installed one for it. It came with 256 MB of RAM a 6 GB hard disk drive and a 13.6 GB drive and it had one CD ROM drive and a 3½-imch floppy. It also was scrapped because I had to move from California to NY… That when my brother gave the makeshift Gateway tower… That also blew out because I was running the video processor at 72 hertz to compensate for the flickering of its 25-inch CRT Monitor at 60 Hertz. I since got newer PC towers.

My masterpiece if my ability is on the Gateway Solo Laptop! My middle brother that gave me the 566i e Machine also gave to me the Gateway Solo Laptop for my birthday in 2009. It was barely working on a half baked version of Windows 98, The CD ROM was not working properly, and I had no Graphic Media Acceleration, the two USB ports had no drivers installed, and no sound out of its speakers. I sent it in to fix all this at Staple Tech Support, I had to pay $114.00 to get the video to work and the CD to work plus their time and labor. The straw the broke the camel’s back, sort of speaking, was the Belkin wireless express card that my brother also gave me with it… I went to Belkin on line, and the only had the drivers for Windows XP not Windows 98. So, I loaded in the XP drivers for it. I had to upgrade to Windows XP or else! It took me three times to do it because I also bought a new 256 MB SODDR RAM card increasing the memory from 96 MB to 160 MB, HALF of each card! (128 + 32 = 160 MB). And replaced the 6 GB drive to an 80 GB 2½-inch IDE drive. I also had to buy a new version of Windows XP Pro and on the third try got the USB ports working and I do have its sound coming from the motherboard… The sad news, … the battery is dead and is not replaceable, however, it is barely working on AC power. I took out the express card because now I am hard wired into my network switch box with it by using a Trendnet USB to RJ45 Ethernet adaptor! Dammit, It works! My middle brother said to me when he saw it working: “Eddie-Ed, you made a silk purse out of a sow’s ear!”  I comment. “I did a Lazarus to it!” I raised the dead lame duck of a notebook You may have one PC, but to me, I need all eight on a network with 180 + backups as if one PC goes down, the others get it going! Not all of the are on at the same time. I need only at most two, and a network server to connect them all, I learned a few serious lessons with the TI-99/4 and the Commodore SX-64. I am not going up the creek without a paddle of some kind of backup and all those installer programs. They saved me from being hacked twice. I recovered from them myself without spending a thin dime. I had all the software needed and reestablished my organization in a matter of hours, not days or weeks as before! Hence as why I stress those BOOT CDS for Windows and a copy of all those installer programs.

One last note, some idiot threw out a Windows 7 64-bit DVD for my Compaq laptop and a very good battery that is for it last month! I do not need it yet, but in case of emergencies. I already have re-cloned its 250 GB drive twice and last time on a 500 GB drive, even though it was a success twice, Windows wants me to renew its license for $50.00 on line to fix the missing certification parameters. So far it does no harm as I have to cancel the “Genuine Advantage” window it showing up every four hours. So, I just ignore it.

Edmond.

Dear Apuharmi,

Apology duly noted! However, if you were at it night and day for forty-five years trying to improve your thinking processes as I have, to compensate for my physical disabilities, then you will understand where I am coming from and where I am at. I like Microsoft's hardware like their mice and programmable keyboards making it easier for me, but all I am doing is to be totally aware what going on when you use Windows XP on UP! And I have written a synopsis for myself as to make it easier to work with Windows XP or 7. Maybe I am trying to share these discoveries what it can or can not do. And what Microsoft is doing about it. As much as I comment about Windows and Office, I will always use them to my advantage. I really am a very sharp programmer, who rewrote Commodore DOS as to do what needed to do as what Windows is doing now on my SX-64 and the Commodore C-128 working in tandem as ONE PC!  I even had the Texas Instruments TI-99/4 and the TI-99/4A Home Computer up to its max capacity running with 4 5¼-inch double sided double density floppies working in TMS 9900 Assembly language along with its TI Extended Basic. And worked as a tech support solely for Olympic Sales company from 1979 to 1981... I also serviced what I sold during business hours and after hours... One of my accomplishments was how the Neilson Rating was formulated which I did for KCBS  Channel 2 in 1980, before it was done on the modern day computers. As much I was constantly on the phone answering the customer's questions, I was credited as being more than a MVP in the sales department. I went every computer seminar paid by the boss, because I knew more than anyone else did as even to sell the first Apple II and III computers. I have taken data processing and accounting in the years following high school and astounded the teachers in college as to how exactly the IBM 402 accounting machines worked as that is simple arithmetic in adding and subtracting on an old 10-key adding machine. I had plenty of time between rounds in Security to study up on the classes I took in electronics and data processing as to formulate my own batch processing even with the TI-59 programmable calculator at the time that carried over to the TI-99/4 and the Commodore SX-64 and C-128. It is when my younger brother gave me my first modern day PC tower I scream how I made it work better than new!!! He was amazed on what I did to the 566i e Machine tower. It has been documented that Windows 98 SE has a fatal flaw built into it long after I discovered it. IT would not shut down after the content index took over. I could not properly shut the PC down with Windows 98. Most of these discoveries were with Windows 98 that I am using with Windows XP and 7 as Microsoft does not tell you what it is really doing! Instead just tell you briefly what I did with the 566i PC:

It came with a DVD ROM Drive in the top 5¼-inch bay that was barely working, and the bottom bay had a CD RAM drive, a 3½-inch Floppy drive, and two hard disk drive as an 8 GB drive as drive letter C and a 20 GB drive for drive letter D and 256 MB of RAM and 2 USB 1.1 ports. It had a MAD DOG sound card that was good even now is in one of other towers, and a Fax/modem PCI card and the bottom PCI card slot was empty.

Like I have said in my last email I also got that as I paid $300.00 for the T1090 e Machine as it came with a 20 GB Seagate IDE drive working with XP with a service pack... It bombed out and lost the initial CD drive... I had to replace it to reboot Windows... I discovered that they both had the same video chip an Intel 81010, and I also discovered that its GMA drivers also made the 566i e Machine go TURBO! I mean four times as quick. I had the 566i bomb more than once with Windows 98, it even scarred 24 sectors of the 8 GB drive that was in it trying to shut it down! Hence I lost Windows 98... By then I put in four new hard disk drives from WD from 160 to 320 GB and needed the CD RAM drive only to get a clean boot of Windows XP from the T1090, I had to call Microsoft to have it activated because I did not want to use the Internet until I knew more about what I want my PCs to be. I subsequently took out those PCI cards and got three  with 4 +1 USB ports as to improve its performance. it ended up with six hard disk drives one was a WD 160 GB Passport that was attached to one of the PCI cards on the inside and one 3½-inch 500 GB IDE drive attached to a Rosewill USB to IDE adaptor, plus other hardware and It had about a terabyte and a quarter drive space inside with ten partitions as to add to the page file. To get past the 137 GB limitation I used Seagate's DDO, Direct Drive Overlay and I was able to reformat its drives capacity. I did this not once, but five times in the course of its history when it finally blew out the second IDE channel. It has since been scrapped and all that was left was its power supply and the motherboard. The drives I still have working as inside the original IDE/SATA I/O Magic enclosure and hence been reformatted and in use. Also my younger brother has given me the 400idx e Machine tower wit Windows 200 Pro and a makeshift PC with a Gateway motherboard. The power and drive lights were not connected because the connections were not there, Here I added the second IDE RACK to cover the top 5¼-inch opening and insert the 3½-inch drive in its tray and it had the drive and power lights.

The 400idx e Machine did not come with a case fan, and I installed one for it. It came with 256 MB of RAM a 6 GB hard disk drive and a 13.6 GB drive and it had one CD ROM drive and a 3½-imch floppy. It also was scrapped because I had to move from California to NY… That when my brother gave the makeshift Gateway tower… That also blew out because I was running the video processor at 72 hertz to compensate for the flickering of its 25-inch CRT Monitor at 60 Hertz. I since got newer PC towers.

My masterpiece if my ability is on the Gateway Solo Laptop! My middle brother that gave me the 566i e Machine also gave to me the Gateway Solo Laptop for my birthday in 2009. It was barely working on a half baked version of Windows 98, The CD ROM was not working properly, and I had no Graphic Media Acceleration, the two USB ports had no drivers installed, and no sound out of its speakers. I sent it in to fix all this at Staple Tech Support, I had to pay $114.00 to get the video to work and the CD to work plus their time and labor. The straw the broke the camel’s back, sort of speaking, was the Belkin wireless express card that my brother also gave me with it… I went to Belkin on line, and the only had the drivers for Windows XP not Windows 98. So, I loaded in the XP drivers for it. I had to upgrade to Windows XP or else! It took me three times to do it because I also bought a new 256 MB SODDR RAM card increasing the memory from 96 MB to 160 MB, HALF of each card! (128 + 32 = 160 MB). And replaced the 6 GB drive to an 80 GB 2½-inch IDE drive. I also had to buy a new version of Windows XP Pro and on the third try got the USB ports working and I do have its sound coming from the motherboard… The sad news, … the battery is dead and is not replaceable, however, it is barely working on AC power. I took out the express card because now I am hard wired into my network switch box with it by using a Trendnet USB to RJ45 Ethernet adaptor! Dammit, It works! My middle brother said to me when he saw it working: “Eddie-Ed, you made a silk purse out of a sow’s ear!”  I comment. “I did a Lazarus to it!” I raised the dead lame duck of a notebook You may one PC, but to me, I need all eight on a network with 180 + backups as if one PC goes down, the others get it going! Not all of the are on at the same time. I need only at most two, and a network server to connect them all, I learned a few serious lessons with the TI-99/4 and the Commodore SX-64. I am not going up the creek without a paddle of some kind of backup and all those installer programs. They saved me from being hacked twice. I recovered from them myself without spending a thin dime. I had all the software needed and reestablished my organization in a matter of hours, not days or weeks as before! Hence as why I stress those BOOT CDS for Windows and a copy of all those installer programs.

One last note, some idiot threw out a Windows 7 64-bit DVD for my Compaq laptop and a very good battery that is for it last month! I do not need it yet, but in case of emergencies. I already have re-cloned its 250 GB drive twice and last time on a 500 GB drive, even though it was a success twice, Windows wants me to renew its license for $50.00 on line to fix the missing certification parameters. So far it does no harm as I have to cancel the “Genuine Advantage” window it showing up every four hours. I just ignore it.

Edmond.

Hi Apuhami,

Is newer Better or WHAT? I can prove to you it isNOT! In computing, you have to be a packrat or else you lose it all. you have to save everything you do! I know of a special shortcut that works with Windows 2000 to Windows Vista and NOT for Windows 7 or 8! This is a FATAL FLAW in Windows 7. If you want to create this shortcut, it has three variations. One to LOCK your PC as the same way as [WINDOWS + L] does. The [Windows] key is just right of the left [CRTL] key. It is a shortcut is to "SHUTDOWN.exe" You do not need to know WHERE it is, Windows will automatically find it in: the "Windows" folder, hidden or not. By its parameters it tells Windows Explorer also to RESTART or TURN OFF the PC... The problem is Windows 7 executes faster that the hardware can handle it! Hence, there is no slow solution for it. POOF! that is how It blew my three Acer Laptops with Windows 7. It is the same as yanking the power cord from the PC and it shoots a backward EMF through all the components on the motherboard and fries the Disk controller as the weakest component. With Windows XP and Vista these shortcuts are safe. I got this long time ago from a published book about Windows XP. (The expert's choice of Windows), and that is not only my opinion. Maybe, 64-bit Windows 7 is way too fast for the hardware? WHO Knows? I use theRESTART form of the shortcut as to restart the PC from ANY window when I cannot access the Task Manager or go bat to the Start menu. It stops the HACKER COLD! If you make a key sequence to it such as [CTRL + SHIFT +R]. IT IS AN IDEMEDIATE high priority execution even if you set a time delay up to 60 seconds. In Windows XP, you can skip [CRTL + ALT + DELETE], and [ALT + f4], (EXIT). With Windows XP it takes its time to either to RESTART or TURN OFF the PC. And I have these shortcuts on the desktop to either of them and no harm done. It is something Microsoft ought to know about and correctly use!

I assume that you know how to create a shortcut, but you have to know what version of Windows you have, and by the same results with Windows 7, it is Microsoft’s responsibility to fix it, not mine or yours!

Use the “NEW Shortcut Wizard” on the blank part of the desktop where there are no icons are, its text line in the address box is:shutdown –r –t 00 and rename it as: RESTARTand then press [ENTER]. The next dialog box says there are no icons for “Shutdown.exe”. Then you see the customizing Wizard and scroll right and see the gold key as its icon. The –r is for RESTART! - L is LOCK, and –T 00 is no time delay. IF it is 20 it is 20 seconds it counts down to zero giving you time to cancel. – s instead of –r means shutdown!! And I name itOFF! And there is an icon for as the red square circle I (eye). What I did, is make it Green and looks like the GREEN restart button when you want to restart from the start menu. I use MS Paint to draw it, Irfan View to create the color the icon.

One last kudos: You ever have Windows explorer stop working and your desktop go blank or Windows freezes? You do not NEED to press the ON button on the front or top of the PC and you cannot see the start menu or the taskbar or the shortcuts? With Windows Explorer 8 or 9 this happens a lot. You lost control of Windows. Or any program can also freeze up and crash. ALL is not lost! In the process, all the open windows close and so have the files opened, are now closed. I learned this recovery secret from HP tech support:

Press: [CTRL + SHIFT + ESC], It wakes up the TASK MANAGER in all versions of Windows, then in the FILE menu, “RUN new task” and type inexplorer and press [ENTER]. Bingo! It opens with a sound, you are back in business! It also refreshes the missing icons if the shortcuts go blank.

Now who is calling me a foolish idiot, Baldy? I can dump a whole lot more kudos I know on your knucklehead. It is your choice to use them or be a fool not to! As Hamlet has Said: “To be or not to be…” If you scanned through my replies from a few years ago, you will find my email address. From your last reply I learned something: I use MS Word 2000 Pro to check my spelling as to correct my replies and paste it back in the reply box, to correct my spelling as I type. Pardon the small type, it is the webpage, and its quirks.

From Edmond the Software and hardware expert or engineer! I look for flaws like this and use them to my best advantage.

I am not sure why this has become such a hot button issue. I am sorry that my comments have made it worse.

I added the remove instructions at the top f the thread because I thought it would help people. It was done directly from my uninstalling it for a test. Let me repeat the basics of that instruction, since a piece of it seems to have gotten lost:

From Start --> Control Panel --> Programs and Features, find your version of Office in the list of programs. Click the "Change" link at the top of the list. Wait for Office to do the set up. On the list of options, select "Add or Remove Features". Click Continue. Select OneNote from the list. RIght click it and select "Not Availalbe", then click continue again. Your computer will buzz for a while.... When done, OneNote should be removed from your computer.

Please be sure that you have another printer available to that machine so that you get a new default printer once Send to OneNote is gone.

As for the other question: No - OneNote doesn't slow down my machine. I usually have at least one instance of it up and I don't see any slow down at all. In fact, installing it and getting it set up only takes a minute or two on my machines. I would love to know more about what is on your machines that is causing the slow down.

Some of us do care about OneNote problems. Just because I can't live without it doesn't mean you should use it. I am sorry for the problems this thread has caused.

Perfect. thank you.