If you uninstall SAS on a Windows operating system and your SAS software is expired, you might receive the following message:

   WARNING: One or more libraries specified in the concatenated library
      SASHELP do not exist.  These libraries were removed from the
      concatenation.
   ERROR: The current date of weekday, month date, year is past
      the final expiration date for your SAS system, which is weekday,
      month date, year.              .
      Please contact your SAS Software Representative to obtain your
      updated SETINIT information.
   ERROR: Initialization of SETINIT information from SASHELP failed.
   FATAL: Unable to initialize the options subsystem.
   ERROR:   (SASXKINI): PHASE 3 KERNEL INITIALIZATION FAILED.
   UNABLE TO INITIALIZE THE SAS KERNEL

In order to uninstall SAS, perform one of the following:

1. Request a temporary SAS installation data (SID) file to renew your license on this computer. Once you receive the temporary SID file, run the Renew SAS Software tool from Start ► Programs ► SAS ► SAS 9.1 Utilities.
2. Verify that you can invoke SAS, close SAS, and then uninstall SAS.
3. If this is the ONLY version of SAS on the system (SAS 9.1), you can delete the c:\program files\SAS directory.

Notes:

• Option 1 provides the cleanest uninstall.
• If there are several versions of SAS on your system, do not perform option 3.

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