Garmin GPS: nRoute Uninstall

tallen wrote: 

Here running XPpro and nRoute is listed in my Control Panel Add/Remove
list. Perhaps you overlooked it?

Phil

 

Don't know how you got into that situation and I have not personally
installed nRoute but if it used Installshield or Windows Installer and
you run the installation again, you should get three options - repair,
reinstall, and remove.

Joel

In news:com Joel
<com> wrote:
 

And in the worst case, you can re-install it completly and then
uninstall it.

--
Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN com

tallen wrote:
 

Bert and Joel replied:

And in the worst case, you can re-install it completly and then
uninstall it.


D0000H! Of course! Reinstall the nRoute and then uninstall. Now I
should have thought about that. Boy, my CRS is getting worse. Thanks
everyone! While at it I think I'll just remove Mapsource RR, City, and
my Bluecharts and start all over again. Its raining all day today and
what a better task than that. :-)

Thanks for the suggestions.

T

Gents,

Just an update. I know some of you may find this
interesting...otherwise just blow it away.
 
T responded:
 


Latest status 4 June 06....

Updated nRoute to v.2.6, or whatever the latest version, from Garmin
website and it did show up on my laptop under "add/remove software". It
definately was not there before with v.2.4 installed. Instead of
removing the s/w immediately, I booted up and connected my gps with
Belkin adapter and guess what? It did not recognize the driver OR ANY
COM PORT!. Nor did it connect to my SeaClearII or Mapsource.

Tried to reinstall the Belkin driver s/w without success. Uninstalled
nRoute and battery died on laptop. I know this is not going to be a
good day.

Recharged battery. Uninstalled then reinstalled Belkin USB s/w and it
recognized the com 5 port. Also, when I then connected the USB
connector, XP dinged me re: new hardware, which indicated it was a
serial ball mouse. I disabled that in device manager to prevent the
jerky cursor syndrome which we discussed in prior messages.

SeaClear II works OK again in active tracking mode. MapSource v.6.5
recognizes the GPS in static mode but still not in active tracking mode
in either Garmin or NMEA data mode. Recall, v.6.5 does active
tracking. I suspect nRoute does some s/w magic to Mapsource v.6.5,
perhaps aborting its capability to do active tracking like Garmin did to
v.6.7.

Looks like Garmin nRoute also worms into the USB software further than
wanted. After thinking about this for some time, I believe I loaded the
first version of nRoute after my last Fall delivery but never really
used it in active tracking mode. So I did not find the issue until this
Spring during my first delivery. Dumb thing to do....not validating
functionality of your tools after making a change. Although backup to
house nav equipment, it could have been an issue if there was a primary
instrument failure.

Guess I will call the software "nRoute version POS".

Next in the saga will be to uninstall all Garmin MapSource, RR, City
Select, and Blue Chart s/w and start all over again.

T.