Does this work for you?

removing via control panel worked. Cbubble loaded. Geomloaded fine but as it was loading a little dialog popped up saying "Warning!!! Problem with license file. This software will now be shut down", if you don't click OK the software can be used! ok does indeed shut it down. Then I closed the window and got another access violation. Went back into IE and tried GEOM again and it worked, hunh!
Roids worked too.