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Are you certain it doesn't have CiviCRM? I believe it does.

Anyhow, you can't uninstall a profile--you can just uninstall the modules it came with if you want to.

The project page says that it comes with CiviCRM and I just downloaded the profile and I see that it indeed comes with CiviCRM.

No, you can not just delete the files. You need to uninstall each module first that comes with this profile. What those are I can't say for sure--you would have to look in the modules directory of your version of the profile.

profiles/civicrm_starterkit

can we please move this discussion to the drupal forums

thanx

lobo

Anyone redirecting questions about the CiviCRM Starter Kit Drupal distribution or about any specific Drupal project, PLEASE redirect the user to the specific project's issue queue... not the generic Drupal support page.  Anything asked about CiviCRM in the general Drupal support channels will simply be redirected to the CiviCRM forums.  This endless, "not our problem" loop is very frustrating for new users.

In the case of the CiviCRM Starter Kit, the correct place to ask for support is https://drupal.org/project/issues/civicrm_starterkit.

When using the the CiviCRM Starter Kit, the CiviCRM Drupal module CANNOT be disabled because CiviCRM is a dependency of the install profile.

http://drupalcode.org/project/civicrm_starterkit.git/blob/refs/heads/7.x-4.x:/civicrm_starterkit.info#l28

You could edit the .info file and remove that dependency, but you are really working against the code at that point.  The CiviCRM Starter Kit was developed to make it easy to install and update Drupal, CiviCRM, and several popular modules that are often used in this type of configuration.  Unfortunately changing the distribution a site uses is more difficult than starting a site w/ a distribution.  Depending on how much time you've put into the site, you may just want to manually recreate the site. 

If you started your site w/ the CiviCRM Starter Kit on Pantheon, in addition to seeing the CiviCRM Starter Kit in the Admin > Reports > Status report (admin/reports/status) you'll also see that upstream repo used for updates when you click Settings > About site on the Pantheon Dashboard.

This what makes it so easy for users to apply updates https://drupal.org/node/1994498

Unfortunately that upstream repo cannot be changed on Pantheon.  You need to start a new site on Pantheon using the standard D7 distribution, import just the Drupal tables, and change the install profile using https://drupal.org/project/profile_switcher.  Simply moving the tables without changing the install profile will cause your site to think it's using a profile that doesn't exist and will result in warnings and errors.   

If you aren't using Pantheon, you can use https://drupal.org/project/profile_switcher to switch to the standard distribution. 

IMPORTANT:  Any modules, themes, libraries you are using from the profiles/civicrm_starterkit directory will NOT be available until they are copied to site/all/modules.  Failing to copy these modules before changing the profile the site is using will make the modules unavailable.

If you simply want to override the modules included in a distribution, you can add the new (or even older) version to sites/all/modules.  This process is well documented at https://drupal.org/node/1974964

Good luck!