“Microsoft Silverlight is a free web-browser plug-in that enables interactive media experiences, rich business applications and immersive mobile apps. Silverlight works on all major OS's plus all major browsers, including Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, and yes, Internet Explorer.” I started by finding out a little more about Microsoft Silverlight, because I didn’t know much about it. I found very helpful the Silverlight home page because it gives you the precise Installation Instructions and also the opportunity to install it directly from their page. The installation process has 5 easy steps:
1. Verify your system requirements (in order to make sure if you are running a Silverlight-compatible Windows operating system and browser);
2. Download Silverlight (start the installation for both Windows Internet Explorer users and for Mozilla Firefox users);
3. Install Silverlight (complete the installation pracess);
4. Verify (verify the Silverlight installation by using it).
The System Requirements page provided me information about the Silverlight compatible Operative Systems (which are Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 etc.) and Browsers (which are Internet Explorer 9, 8, 7, 6, Firefox, Safari and Chrome), but also the minimal requirement for installing Silverlight (for Windows for example browsers must be in 32-bit mode, must have 1.6-gigahertz or higher processor with 512-MB of RAM).
After reading all the useful information about Microsoft Silverlight I have watched the three videos on how to uninstall Silverlight on the three different compatible Operative Systems. I believe that the processes of uninstalling Silverlight on Windows XP and on Windows Vista are very similar. Basically you have to follow the same steps: before starting the uninstall process you should close any running web browsers on your machine, then you have to click “Start” and after that “Control Panel”.
After following these steps the two uninstall processes get a little bit different. Uninstalling Silverlight on Windows XP follows these steps: in the “Control Panel” double click on “Add and Remove Programs” and then in the list of programs to be removed you have to scroll down until you find “Microsoft Silverlight”, click on it and then click on “remove”.
When opening the “Control Panel Home” on Windows Vista you have to click on “Uninstall a program” and than in the list of programs you have to find “Microsoft Silverlight”. After finding the program you want to remove, you have to click the “uninstall” button at the top of the window, give your permission to uninstall that program and after that you are finished uninstalling “Microsoft Silverlight”.
Uninstalling Silverlight on Mac is a complete different process, only the first step being the same as for the other two Operative Systems (before starting the uninstall process you should close any running web browser on your machine). Once your browsers are closed navigate to the hard drive on which you installed the plug-in. Next you have to go into the “Library” and “Internet plug-ins”. After you find the Microsoft Silverlight you have to click on this file and drag it into your “Trash”. When you click “Empty Trash”, your Silverlight uninstalling process will be complete.
You might think that this post is a little too long, but I hope one will find it useful when needs to uninstall Silverlight on his computer!
See you next Monday J
