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Reinstalling a Win32 application

Reinstalling a Win32 application - Windows Tutorial

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Reinstalling a Win32 application

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- [Instructor] Win32 applications tend to vary in scope. So there's not always one single method that can be used for reinstalling every application, but let's take a look at what the application reinstallation process might look like. What I'm going to do is right click on the start button and go to run and type control and click okay. And this is going to open the legacy Windows Control Panel. From there, I'm going to click on programs and then I'm going to click on programs and features. And when I do that, I get a list of the Win32 applications that are installed on this system. So let's take a look at Adobe Acrobat DC. I'll go ahead and select it. And you'll notice that there's no link that I can click in order to reinstall the application. So what I'm going to do instead is simply click uninstall. And then I'm asked if I want to uninstall the application. I'll click yes. And of course, if you're doing this in real life…

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