re tidying up after removing an ole server in article c y kz liverpool ac uk qq liverpool ac uk chris wooff writes a while ago i installed spss for windows as part of an evaluation once the evaluation was complete i duly deleted the software from my pc unfortunately there is still a ghost of spss left when i run something like write and go to embed an object then spss chart appears on the list of objects i m offered i looked around all the obvious ini files without success the next thing i tried was looking for the string spss chart in every file in the windows directory it turned up in a file called req dat or reg dat unfortunately the file was binary and so i didn t feel inclined to edit it i d welcome a solution for removing spss from the list of ole servers i think you can do this with regedit which can make changes to the ole registration database from program manager or file manager choose run and type regedit you do have it its included with windows but not well documented tom paladin world std com
