With HTML5 evolving, it is quite possible that Silverlight will completely disappear in time anyway. Even Flash will probably disappear in the long run.

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One of the 2 or 3 Fix Its I tried displayed an error code about a particular registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{DFEAF54 1-F3E1-4c24-ACAC-99C30715084A}. It would say “Could not open, etc., etc., etc., Access Denied.” The permissions were all whacked out & I couldn’t delete the key manually by right clicking on it then going to delete. For those of you who don’t know, click on the start button in the bottom right hand corner, go up to RUN, type in regedit, then hit enter. It will launch the registry editor. As always be careful with registry modification & do make a backup before trying stuff like this. Otherwise u may end up with a non-usable/ seriously corrupted drive or something.

So I navigated to the key & had to do some tedious work to reassign the permissions & ownership of the key. & should you read this & have the EXACT same issue you will have to go through each of the 8 subkeys & reassign the permissions & owner if they aren’t what they’re supposed to be. & one of them (“MiscStatus”) has yet another subkey called “1.”. Go through each one starting at the bottom at the lowest level, right click on the name of the subkey, go to permissions, look up at the top under Group & User Names, & click Remove till there are none left. Then click ADD then type in whatever your user name is that you’re logged in with. It took me a while to figure out what my user name is. I don’t log in, my computer just starts up. So for me all I typed in was “Yaz,” my user name I chose long ago when I 1st got my laptop. Your user name by itself is all you type in. No other characters. I am the administrator so there were no issues. Then underneath I clicked on the 1st box on the left & assigned myself full control over the subkey. Then click Advanced & make sure neither of the 2 inheritable boxes are checked. Click on the Owner tab at the top & make sure an owner is assigned & that it’s your login name.

After doing this for all 9 of the subkeys I was able to just right click on {DFEAF541-F3E1-4c24-ACAC-99C30715084A} & go to delete & IT WORKED! Then I finally launched Silverlight installer & it worked with no further problems. Hopefully this helps some people out. There are a lot of dumb, obvious suggestions out there (just like with the Vista Windows Update not working) & it’s nice to be able to figure out how to resolve it this time in an hour or two as opposed to about a year last time there was a registry related issue that nothing would fix other than manually deleting the associated bad keys myself that were left behind by all the uninstallers, Fix Its, & other programs & solutions that did nothing but waste more time.

Sincerely,

Mr. Yazen J. Qafisheh

This is not asking about an update, this is asking for permission to remove Silverlight (which is an “update” of your computers settings from Silverlight to no Silverlight). You have to say yes to uninstall Silverlight, saying no keeps Silverlight.

The moron who chose the words for that UAC dialog obviously was not thinking straight about the confusion his/her misuse of the word “update” would cause.

The dialog should really have said “Do you want this uninstaller to make changes to your computers settings?”.

After several problems with update requests and debugs during updates not possible at all to uninstall it.

Solve the problem once for ever!

- Download the freeware IObit Uninstaller (standalone)
- Run it
- Be sure you make a backup
- Select Silverlight
- Klick UNINSTALL Button
- Let IObit scan the registry
- Select all Silverlight’s
- Delete them

… Thats it …

Have fun

99aa61d68c2b93a297cf on my drive g:
Silverlight updates also keep looking for this file. It does not exist on any of my drives.