What worked for my Windows 8.1 PC:
First of all close Windows Explorer by:
Press Ctrl + Alt + Del for opening Task Manager, go to processes, find Windows Explorer, right click, and end task. Don't worry if start bar is gone and something else. Use Alt + Tab for traversing between files. Then in Task Manager click File and Run new task, and type cmd
. This will open you a Command Line.
Inside the Terminal:
If your version is 32 bit, and it is in my case, it's located in Program Files (x86), so you should type:
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\git-cheetah"
regsvr32 /u git_shell_ext64.dll
This was for unregistering.
You can traverse between directories using cd directoryname
and you can get back one directory by cd ..
. For viewing what is in a directory you can type dir
in when you are in that directory. For deleting the file type:
del /F filename
After that again open the Task Manager, go to File, then run explorer
.
This way you will get to usual display. Go to the Git folder which we wanted to get rid of and delete it simply.
I hope this works for other people who are using Windows 8.1.