How to uninstall Quickbooks special edition

When I received my xps gen2 laptop it came with a trial version of quickbooks simple start special edition. I wanted to remove it. I used add/remove to remove the quicken entry. It only partially removed the program. I'm left with a short cut on my desktop and an intuit file under programs that contains app 50mB. There are still references to "intuit printer" under list of installed printers. If I click on the shortcut the program asks to insert the program cd. No quicked cd came with the system. I know I could manually delete the file and shortcut and run a reg cleaning app and hopefully get it cleaned out but it seems there should be a better way. I know I could reformat and reinstall but I don't want to do that. Dell technical and customer service were of no help. Anyone deleted this program? How did it go?

 

why not just do a fresh install?

Insipron 6000D
1.86Ghz-2MB-533Mhz-WSXGA
1GBDDR2-60GB7200RPM
9Li

 

does that come with every laptop.

additionally, i thought i heard dell dosent include a windows xp cd?
how would you do a fresh install?

 

because i don't want to.

 

if you opt to just uninstall you will be left with plenty of hanging shortcuts, registry entries (do people really trust reg cleaners to do the job right?), compressed executables, leftover folders, etc. if your rig is new, i'd def reformat/repartition, especially on an xps2. it's like buying a sports car and leaving all the dealer stickers and stuff on the car.

anyways, you seem pretty tech savvy, just do what you said; delete the folders, uninstall the printer, manual edit the registry etc.

also, check out annoyances.org, i think they have a tool that will help you