Help with Uninstalling

[andrewbuddy12]

k,
about a month ago my motherboard fried. I just got the replacement about 3 days ago, and it went in fine, thats great.

Now, when I rebooted my computer it gave me a problem of "access denied to desktop". I couldn't really find a way to fix it, so I made a new account, transfered all of my documents (pictures, videos, downloads, etc) to the new account, and deleted the old one.

Now, a few of my applications were not on the "my programs" list, including things like vent, AA, ASE, etc. I went to the "add/remove programs" thing in control panel, and specifically was looking for AA. It wasn't on the list. I then went to the program files, and all of my AA documents were in there. In fact, I could still run AA from that directory, but it just wouldn't show up anywhere else. I then went to a program I use called "Speedupmypc" (by Uniblue) and it did infact have AA listed on the list of programs I could uninstall. I *think* but cannot remember for sure if I tried to uninstall it using that.

I then made what I think was a really stupid decision. I decided that since basically nowhere on my computer was it reading AA, I would just delete the program-files and install fresh. So, I did that... and then when I went to install it again, it said that I already had another version installed. I have looked ALL over my computer for any documents related to Armyops, America's Army, etc... but I can't find anything. I'm kindof thinking the only way I'm going to resolve this is if I reformat; but... I'm not ready to do that yet.

If you all could offer me any suggestions... I would really appreciate them. YES, I did empty my recycle bin, I can't just undelete them. My dad thinks it might be something in my registry, but I don't know anything about that. Thanks...

-Andrew

[Trust]

You may try ccleaner. They have an install uninstall feature that may find it and it fixes dead registry links. Here's a link for you (it's freeware). www.ccleaner.com/download

[andrewbuddy12]

aintskeert said:

You may try ccleaner. They have an install uninstall feature that may find it and it fixes dead registry links. Here's a link for you (it's freeware). www.ccleaner.com/download

that was very interesting... there was TONS of stuff aside from AA with problems...cleared all of those up. i'm trying to install now, *fingers crossed*

[andrewbuddy12]

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well, same problem. thx for that though Trust... I'm sure that will help in the future, but it didn't this time.

[Skater-=Of-God=-]

Well, it sounds like when you installed these programs you chose to install for just you. Not other users as well. Now you would have to uninstall it from that user. But it got corupted. Try searching google for stuff like; clear registry, how to clear registry, ms program commands. You might be able to find a ms program command that will clear registry. Thats pretty much all I got...
Sorry...

*edit* some spelling mistakes

[Gardener-=Of-God=-]

I've used a program called "RegCleaner" in the past. You can use it to manually delete the America's Army entries in your registry which are often used to keep track of installed programs.

[andrewbuddy12]

tuxlover said:

I've used a program called "RegCleaner" in the past. You can use it to manually delete the America's Army entries in your registry which are often used to keep track of installed programs.

that got the last AA related file in my registry (the only one left over from the ccleaner...), and AA is installing normally now. thanks a lot guys!

-Andrew

[Skater-=Of-God=-]

Awesome. Congratz. See you in game.

[Titan-=Of-God=-†]

good call gardener but a little advice is when ever you replace a major component to your computer[CPU/Motherboard] you should always format the drive because windows was configured to another set up