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Posted on Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 06:24 am:   
Hi

Ive installed a game (Gangland) then binned the folder it was installed to (Stoopid)! Cant uninstall (says files are missing) cant reinstall because PC still thinks its installed and wont give me the option to install again when I put CD in! Can you help???

Cheers
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Mike
Posted on Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 07:36 am:   
If it is still in the Recycle Bin click on it and Restore it.
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Mike
Posted on Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 07:38 am:   
Right click on it and choose Restore it will be put back where it was
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Gary
Posted on Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 11:48 am:   
Is the file listed in your Add/Remove programs? If it is, try uninstalling it from there. If that doesn't work, then you may try going into the registry & deleting it from there.
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Posted on Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 11:49 am:   
No not in bin. :-) It was a while ago that I binned it.

Is there another way? Like does it put something in the Registry or in the System folder?
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Mike
Posted on Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 12:19 pm:   
You could do a Search in Find for all the files of the the folder, then delete them, make sure they are the right files, then as Gary said do a Find in the Registry for that program and delete all the Keys, be careful and be 100% sure the Keys are associated with that program, before you delete them. You should then be able to reinstall it. I had to do that with an old Zone Alarm program there were 157 Keys.
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Posted on Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 12:29 pm:   
Nightmare! Is there a search option in the registry? Ive done a search on the HD a it didnt come up with any. Nothin is listed in Add/Remove.
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Posted on Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 12:37 pm:   
Ok got it sorted! Found the 'Find' option in the registry and binned the related entries. Job done! Cheers
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Mike
Posted on Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 01:11 pm:   
Sweet can you reinstall the program lol
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Posted on Monday, May 03, 2004 - 04:23 am:   
yes, got it to reinstall now! Cheers! :-)

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