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Completely Remove Thunderbird, All Its Components, And Email

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I am now with a new company. I uninstalled Thunderbird and re-installed it. When I opened it up, my old company stuff was in there. I apparently didn’t uninstall some components.

In my computer’s Control Panel – Add or Remove Programs there’s a list of items starting with MSXML. Perhaps I should have removed these. Are they components of Thunderbird?

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  1. Ugg. Without them saying so that link was for a later Operating System.

    Whatever, for XP it is “Control Panel > Add-Remove Programs” but it looks like you’ve already been there. The next step is uninstalling your profile. I think it is pretty well the same as the link I gave you but perhaps you’d be best work with this one (which definitely states XP):
    http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_f…

    In case that looks confusing, all you are really trying to do is follow this path down as far as opening the Application Data folder:
    C:\Documents and Settings\<your Windows user name>\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\<Profile name>
    You will have to unhide files and folders to see to the Application Data folder (as given in the link). When you are in there look for a folder named Thunderbird and delete it. That should remove all the associated profile stuff that follows and do the trick.

    Always pop back and let us know the outcome – thanks

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