uninstallate

present singular third person uninstallates · participle present uninstallating · participle past uninstallated · past uninstallated

1. nonstandardtransitivechiefly non-native speakers' EnglishTo uninstall.

   The problem was caused by a program sitting there prior to installation of Win98 upgrade: Seagate Direct Tape Access v. 3. Uninstallating this program restored full power to Windows98.

   1998 November 7, <amolj4lw@my-dejanews.com>, “swapping to disk - cured!”, in alt.windows98 (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jun 2026

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   Also for ease of installation and uninstallation, a common advice is to install the software applications into discrete drives, i.e., reserve C and D for the OS's; E for applications which will be running with the OS in Drive C; F, for the same applications which will be running with the OS in Drive D. Otherwise, what will happen is when uninstallating a common app, e.g., Office97 from NT, it will remove the files needed to run it from Win9X.

   1999 December 30, [Tom] <thsu@gte.net>, “PnP on dual-boot systems”, in comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.misc (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jun 2026

   The HP notebook also has a modem. This has an install of earthlink software for dialup and modified internet explorer. This I've since uninstallated sometime ago. The dialup dialog box for it still pops up intermittently.

   2003 September 28, Lil' Dave, “firewire / NIC”, in microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jun 2026