iMAboud
No Uninstall/Disable... seriously?
How is that? there is an uninstall in windows control panel for both python packages and iMA Menu
Also there's a shortcut unisntaller.. are they not working for you? or the files are missing?
Ohhh.. ok you're actually right! I mistakenly tried to join both uninstallers in 1 uninstaller which made it only uninstall the custom theme and config, without actually unregistering the Nilesoft Shell or delete the files.
I will fix this right now, and in the meantime you can go to the program folder, double click "Shell.exe" then "Unregister" this will stop it, then you can delete all the folder from program files.
Thanks for reporting
This is almost fixed, it now unregisters all shell related and python and all files except for shell.dll which is a Nilesoft Shell's file that despites being unregistered still refuses to delete.
I'll find out why and fix it.
I am still struggling with the uninstaller since Nilesoft Shell itself is not easily removable. Even the offical one keeps some files, and what I did to uninstall was first open shell.exe, then unregister, then delete the files. This might keep one file unremovable which is shell.dll but what I did was close all the apps its hooked to, it'll tell you what app is using shell.dll then just close them, and try to delete it.
I tried making an uninstaller but the issue is Nilesoft is not open sourced and it's so complicated to delete and find all the registery files it adds itself to.
I'm sorry if this was a pain, it has been painful to work with Nilesoft shell for awhile now, I got so tired trying to figure this out and begging the dev to make it open source to make things easier! hope he does, soon.
I'm gonna figure you are sincerely trying to help folks with a nice little app, but seriously? You "gotta tired trying to figure it out"???!!!
So now I've got a computer that's all screwed up, because literally just opening your app changed my context menu, and now I can't change it back or delete the program.
Next time you write something THAT DOESN'T WORK, how about taking it down until you figure it out.
This is github, this isn't for people who can't figure out how to unregister an app and delete it! it isn't microsoft store or google play to complain about bad experience, and I did not charge you to use this app. If you can't use google or the 100 types of AI to ask for help or even try and read my comment above which I repeated a few times on how to uninstall it which will take less than 1 minute to uninstall then I can't help you.
Literally just needs to launch shell.exe that's in iMA Menu folder, launch it, unregister, DONE. What part of this is hard for you to understand? I am not here to make a 10/10 experience app, this is github for testing, finding issues, fixing, developing together, so I don't think you're in the right place, stick with polished, finished apps that are meant for normal users not for developers only. Thank you
Lots of props to you for giving me a piece of your mind without getting pissy and personal. I think I had done the same, and hope you noticed I did preface my comment with "I'm sure you're trying to help people".
"this is github for testing, finding issues, fixing, developing together, so I don't think you're in the right place, stick with polished, finished apps that are meant for normal users not for developers only" Anyway, NOT a complaint, more just a sharing, I guess...... that the above is EXACTLY the problem I ended up having...... That a non-techie, like me, doesn't know what's "finished" and what's "developer". I searched to solve my problem, and LOTS of trusted sites like Tom's Hardware and etc... said to go to you. So a guy like me has no way of knowing that it's even something I have to check for: developer/public.
Not asking you to respond, it's NOT a complaint as I said. And again, your response actually ended up being a positive in (as I said) showing me that not everyone has to get all name-calling and such. Best of luck to you.
Water under the bridge. And if you still unable to uninstall, I have updated the installer to add the app in control panel, unregisters Nilesoft, deletes all files (except for shell.dll since it needs a system restart to be deletable) and reverts back to normal windows context menu.
https://github.com/iMAboud/iMA-Menu/releases/download/V.1.0.2/iMA.Menu.Installer.exe
Good luck
No, I did get it uninstalled, thanks. For some reason it kept telling me I needed to be an Administrator, even though I am. I won't be using it though. It wasn't solving (or I couldn't get it to solve) the specific problem I had. Though in fairness, neither could maybe 4 ish? similar programs either. Another program had embedded itself on my context menu, and I couldn't get that off... even after uninstalling the program. Nothing worked, until I figured how to manually get into the registry and delete the offending entry. Nice program, I liked being able to change the look and feel of context menu (that was you, if I remember).... but yeah, for me, I need more "newbie friendly". For example, when I did change the context menu with you, I couldn't revert to the original. Not you, me. It was above my pay grade, I guess. Thanks for the conversation, and good luck, back.
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Water under the bridge. And if you still unable to uninstall, I have updated the installer to add the app in control panel, unregisters Nilesoft, deletes all files (except for shell.dll since it needs a system restart to be deletable) and reverts back to normal windows context menu.
https://github.com/iMAboud/iMA-Menu/releases/download/V.1.0.2/iMA.Menu.Installer.exe
Good luck
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Fair enough, although this has became a lot less confusing, and changes are made instantly and can revert back to default and can be uninstallable now. It still isn't polished, but I'm trying to make this less buggy everyday. The latest release has solved a lot of the issues previous versions had.
The entire confusion was from myside, this started as a fork of Nilesoft with just a custom theme and no way of editing, then transformed into multi-featured app, then into a GUI for NS, then now into plugins manager. During these phases, the structure has changed and overlapped on top of each other creating lots of issues with older versions, and made uninstalling nearly impossible, but now, things are a 100 times better, but I still wouldn't recommend using it, not that you'll miss a lot anyway.