http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4225 Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: Can't turn Returnil off or uninstall ! en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:49:06 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4225#post-45487 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:41:54 +0000 RunesageMagik 45487@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks, Robert. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4225#post-45478 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:36:55 +0000 Robert 45478@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>NolafromNZ,you're welcome!<br /> I am glad I could help you.</p> <p>RunesageMagik,<br /> If the RVSYSTEM.img file is still present ,it will be recognized by any new installation of Returnil. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4225#post-45471 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:17:17 +0000 Bethany 45471@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I used ccleaner to remove it from the start up menu and was able to uminstall it. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4225#post-45464 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:36:57 +0000 Violet4714 45464@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>hi, RM...</p> <p>sorry i'm unable to answer your question...</p> <p>i usually have Returnil System protection off, unless i'm trying software before installing...the other feature i use often is the ability to right-click &#38; save selected item (in my case, usually just a file/folder or two) to hard disk...</p> <p>IIRC...it seemed Disk Cleanup somehow compressed the Returnil drive, as if it was unused files/folders...i won't even try a best-guess there... </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4225#post-45439 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:51:06 +0000 NolafromNZ 45439@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Robert, you cannot imagine HOW grateful I am to you for explaining how to get the missing 4gb back on my c: drive. Thank you so very much. I was extremely worried about the very low space I had on the drive and now it has doubled. Wonderful. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4225#post-45431 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:10:21 +0000 Robert 45431@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Awase,just in case you didn't manage to uninstall Returnil by now:</p> <p>To uninstall Returnil:</p> <p> 1)Turn OFF system Protection if it is ON!<br /> (Open Returnil and set protection mode to OFF)<br /> Uncheck mount 'virtual drive'</p> <p><strong>REBOOT</strong></p> <p> 2) Deactivate the Protection Scheduler if it is ON!<br /> (Open Returnil, select Other Settings-uncheck the Enable the System Protection<br /> Scheduler option).</p> <p> 3) <strong>QUIT</strong> the program if running!<br /> (right click the RVS Tray Icon - select “Quit Program”<br /> or use taskmanager to end the program</p> <p> 4)Uninstall the program<br /> (Start Menu- Select the Uninstall link of Returnil-you will also have<br /> a repair option)</p> <p> 5)If this still doesn't work reinstalling Returnil as <strong>Voilet</strong> suggested might do the trick and give you an option to uninstall and delete the virtual partition too.<br /> (otherwise you'll still have about 4 gigs of 'wasted' space on your drive)</p> <p>To delete the Virtual partition manually:<br /> Open the hidden folder C:\Returnil (you'll need to turn on the option to see hidden files in Explorer)<br /> Delete the RVSYSTEM.img file. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4225#post-45428 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:21:50 +0000 RunesageMagik 45428@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p><strong>Violet</strong><br /> Just out of curiosity, did the reinstall preserve whatever you had previously stored on Returnil's virtual drive? Thanks. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4225#post-45375 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:00:21 +0000 Violet4714 45375@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>hello, awase...</p> <p>the default for Returnil is "System Protection is currently OFF" (green shield showing) on boot...did you try a reboot to see if the default started again?...then you can right-click the shield &#38; choose "Exit"...</p> <p>running MS Disk Cleanup caused Returnil to stop functioning properly for me...the solution that worked in my case was to download Returnil---i d/l from Major Geeks ( <a href="http://majorgeeks.com/Returnil_Virtual_System_Personal_Edition_d5702.html" rel="nofollow">http://majorgeeks.com/Returnil_Virtual_System_Personal_Edition_d5702.html</a> )---install over the Giveaway Returnil, reboot...and it was fixed...</p> <p>hope this helps... </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4225#post-45372 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:27:36 +0000 Archangel 45372@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>A good piece of software for killing anything is "Kill Process". It's very small, free and 100% effective but just make sure you know what your "Killing". LOL</p> <p>Google it and download. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4225#post-45369 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:24:59 +0000 knighthawk 45369@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>This is just an idea but have you tried control,alt,delete to bring up task manager and stop it that way.As for uninstall CCleaner does a good job of it. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4225#post-45365 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:10:47 +0000 awase 45365@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Help! I am unable to turn Returnil off and I can't uninstall it until I turn it off. Help! </p>