

To answer your main question, if you want to get rid of Reflector you can probably just delete it: the vast majority of people don't use an installer to "install" it on their machines anyway, so deletion will do the job. So what is that way? Downloading the trial version just so that I can remove it is not a reasonable option. The software should provide me with a way to remove it, like all other software, especially now that it's no longer free. Yes, I could probably delete the executable, and then go hacking around in the Registry myself to remove the shell integration and all of the associations. Instead, I get this unhelpful and now-inaccurate message: But I can't do that because I'm not willing to pay for it or download a new version. I need to be able to open up the software so that I can ask it to remove itself from Explorer and Visual Studio before I go blindly deleting the folder from my disk.
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The problem is that I can't figure out how to completely eliminate of all traces of Reflector from my PC(s). Fortunately, there are lots of great free and/or open source alternatives I'll be picking one of those. My personal feelings about that have motivated me not to upgrade to the latest version, and in fact, not to use any Red Gate software at all. Now, I can't use any of it anymore because Red Gate has decided not just to begin charging for new versions of its software, but to lock out all existing versions. This was all very nice, and I used it extensively. From within the UI, I was able to configure things like Windows Explorer and Visual Studio integration. NET Reflector for the first time, it was as easy as unzipping it, dragging the folder to the appropriate place on my disk, and launching it.
