Removing Discovery Studio

This topic provides instructions to remove a Discovery Studio installation on:

Windows systems

To remove Discovery Studio from a Windows system

Note. The Discovery Studio uninstall wizard must be run from the original distribution media, not from any other copy of the distributed content.

You must have Administrator privileges to modify the installation on Windows systems.

Uninstallation of Discovery Studio may require that your machine be restarted.
Cancel any server jobs that are running, either locally or that have been started on servers remote from the Discovery Studio client that you may be uninstalling.
Close Discovery Studio.
On the Windows Start menu, select Settings | Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs.
Select Accelrys Discovery Studio 1.6 from the list of programs and then click the Remove button.
You will be prompted to confirm that you really want to remove Discovery Studio from your computer. Click Yes to continue.
Discovery Studio will be removed from your computer.
Discovery Studio stores information related to your operation of the program to disk, so that preferences and window layouts (for example) are maintained between sessions. To remove this information. delete the following folder and its sub-folders: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Accelrys\Discovery Studio\1.6
If a system restart is required, you are prompted at the end of the process. The uninstallation is not fully completed until you have restarted your system.
If a LicensePack was installed as a part of this installation, it should be removed separately if no other Accelrys installations depend on it. See the License Pack documentation accessible from the License Administrator Help | Help Topics for details.

Note. To remove the Discovery Studio installation, you must have appropriate privileges to delete the installation files and run the uninstaller.

To remove Discovery Studio from a Linux system

Log into the account which was originally used to install Discovery Studio.
Ensure that all server jobs running under this installation are stopped.
Locate the Uninstaller directory:
> <pathway>/Uninstaller/
Execute the uninstaller:
> ./<pathway>/Uninstaller/uninstaller.sh
The uninstall wizard opens to the Welcome screen. Click the Next button.
The summary of your Discovery Studio installation is displayed. To uninstall the summarized components, click the Uninstall button.
The uninstallation process begins. When it has completed, the installer closes. The files associated with the Discovery Studio installation are removed.
Discovery Studio stores information related to your operation of the application to disk, so that preferences and window layouts (for example) are maintained between sessions. To remove this information. delete the following folder and its sub-folders:
$HOME/.Accelrys/Discovery Studio/1.6
where $HOME is your home directory. (Note that there is a space between Discovery and Studio on Linux systems.)
If a LicensePack was installed as a part of this installation, it should be removed separately if no other Accelrys installations depend on it. See the License Pack documentation accessible from the License Administrator Help | Help Topics for details.