Uninstalling problems
I'm moving to a new PC and I want to uninstall Rome, but I can't.
The last time I uninstalled it, I removed Rome first. This apparently left BI orphaned, it could not be uninstalled via control panel uninstaller. Worse, the Rome disk perceived that I still had Rome installed, so it only gave me options for play or uninstall, neither of which worked, so I couldn't re-install. Eusing Reg cleaner didn't fix it. Finally I had to go into the registry and manually edit out every reference to Rome I could find. There were zillions of them and besides, that was very risky. I'd rather not do it again.
So I figured that I would do it in reverse this time, first BI. But now apparently the basic Rome was orphaned! I can't uninstall it, I can't play it, I can't re-install it. I already went through Eusing reg cleaner. I also tried going into the registry and removing only the Rome TW folders I could find, but that didn't work. There are zillions of individual files that go in folders named something like 2F2838CV2221G4H683 and that apparently correspond to every last file in Rome's data. Frankly I was hoping removing the gross folders might work.
So what I did next, I used system restore to return to the point before I tried to uninstall BI, just to be safe if I had messed up something in the registry. I'm at the same situation as the beginning: No play, no uninstall, no re-install. System restore only fixes the registry and settings but doesn't recover deleted files so the Rome installation is missing several now.
Any suggestions? What can I do (short of formatting the hard disk)?
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Originally Posted by €azy-£
