Contact Wolf
Contact Wolf is a popular software program from Lone Wolf software company. It is a contact management database that keeps records including addresses, phone numbers, Internet information and family and business contacts. If you are looking for a simple address book, this program may be overkill, although it has received good reviews from people using it in their businesses for contact management.
I wasn’t able to find any uninstall problems with Contact Wolf in general, but that doesn’t mean you’ve done anything wrong. The file may be corrupt or the uninstall program isn’t working for some unknown reason. Whatever the reason that you can’t uninstall the program, there are ways around it.
Simple Solutions
I’m sure that this isn’t your problem, but I have to ask - is Contact Wolf running in the background when you are trying to remove it? Programs have to be closed before they can be removed.
Is the Add/Remove program giving you any particular error messages? It is easy to find the problem if the system points you in the right direction.
Delete Contact Wolf Manually
The best way to get around Add/Remove program problems is to delete it through the registry. Make sure that you have given yourself a restore point in case you run into any problems.
To set a restore point:
- Go to Start, then Programs and then Accessories.
- Open System Tools.
- Start System Restore.
- Pick the option for Setting a System Restore Point.
- Click Next.
- Name the restore point so you can find it easily later.
- Click Create, then Close.
Once you have set a system restore point, you can get into the registry:
- Go to Start, then Run.
- Type in regedit.
- Search for the Contact Wolf software by entering the name of the program.
- Delete anything that is associated with this program.
Using System Restore
If for some reason, uninstalling through the registry doesn’t work, you can go back to a previous restore point (not the one you just set up) to get back to a point before you installed the Contact Wolf program.
- Follow the above directions through number 3, getting into System Restore.
- Click on ‘Restore my computer to an earlier time’.
- Click Next. See the Select a Restore Point page.
- Select the Date you want to restore to. This should be a date just before you installed Contact Wolf. Any programs you installed after this date will have to be reinstalled.
- Confirm the date, click Next.
- The computer will shut down and reboot. You will see the “Restoration Complete” page. Click Ok.
One of these solutions should work for you. You can also use a software uninstaller program such as Perfect Uninstaller.
