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dont get mad or close this post

i have 2 EA games that wont instal wont uninstal wont play ive went to the EA site but it didnt help really the games that are facked up are battlefield veitnam and mohaa(medal of honor allied assault) ive tried alot of stuff but nothing works i was thinks of getting one of them computer people to come over and fix it but that costs money. and i was going to call EA (if they have some sort of help line) any suggestions on what i should do?
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It's very rare that you CANNOT uninstall a game unless you've tinkered with the games files manually and it causes an error with the uninstallation files.

Can you not uninstall the game using Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs? If you also get an uninstall error doing that I'd have to guess you maybe manually tinkered with some files which at that point you don't have much choice than to just manually delete all the files pertaining to the game(s) you want to uninstall, and then maybe get a registry cleaner to clean up your registry or manually delete the games registry keys in local_machine and current_user.

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Not really belonging in General Yib-Yab (Off Topic), rather tech help. But there's a number of reasons why something won't install.

What is the nature of the failure to install? How far do you get? What is on screen? Does it always fail at the same point?

P.S. Not being able to uninstall is actually pretty common. To be a neat freak you can delete the pertinant registry info along with game files (also, ideally you'd want to delete the entry in Add/Remove programs associated with the program). But if it's over your head just the files will suffice for most purposes.

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I delete games wthat wont automaticly unistall by just gogin to find all files created by that program and delete myself normallyt this means going through your /c: drive, thats what i normally do.

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By manually deleting the files your still leaving registry keys in the system, most likely save files as well depending on the game, considering some games will make an additional folder in c: or whichever drive you've installed the game to or else it'll make a folder in my documents somewhere. Whether or not you still want your save files is up to you, but usually you'd tend to clean up the registry as well after manually deleting the files, or atleast I do.

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to awnsers all youre help
ive looked in the control pannel it wont delete or uninstal it says "mantinence complete" so i deleted all the files

and i dont know where the "registry files" are ill post screen shots of the thing that opens up when i put the disc in

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ok i tried to post the screen shots in the gallery but it didnt work..... do any of you have msn? if so i could send you the pics through that

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Strangely enough, this has actually happened to me with two games; Medal of Honor Allied Assault, and a demo from EA Games, although I cant recall what it was.

I used a tool in Norton System Works 2003 that forcefully removes the files from your computer. Basically, the games leave files on your PC in Program Files and Windows, every time you try to install/uninstall the installer recognises the left over files, and you get the error.

Norton System Works does this by finding the directory belonging to the game and compeletely wipes it off your HD. As to why manually doing this doesnt work and Norton does, I dont know.

You can probably get a trial copy of NSW 2005 now off their website. Mess about with some of the tools in the program until you find the one that does the job and you should have no problems from there.

Sorry I cant recall the exact tool, it's been a loooooong time since I had to use Norton to remove files from my PC.

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search in the registry and delete everything that comes up about the games. Then you should be able to install them again.

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How you ended up in this forum and why you start a thread here is beyond me but anyway..

Have you tried booting in fail-safe (not sure what's it called in English) mode? Whenever I have problem deleting a file that usually helps.

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can you send me a link pretty please?

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.... i dont know where this "registry" is

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The registry is like a big book of keys and values that windows stores, about 30-50MB in size. Lots of programs use this book to record all sorts of stuff, records of the add/remove program list, what files extensions are associated with what programs, CD keys, and lots lots more.

Messing with the registry is rather dangerous if you don't know what you're doing.

Here is the MS help link for manually removing the add/remove programs listing: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314481

There is also a pretty and easy to use tool for editing the add/remove programs list here: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/U...e-Master.shtml

There are other registry entries besides the add/remove programs listing, usually under HKEY_LocalMachine/Software/Company, game ect. Presumably a registry cleaner is a much safer thing to run after deleting the files and add/remove listing than manually going in and deleting stuff from the registry.

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I can.

But first! You must prove yourself worthy of such a request!

*Does Google Dance*

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google dance ...???

i did my sun dance today and it scared some little kids away

how can i show im worthy??

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Send me money.









Preferably via PayPal. Kthx.

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Registry:

1: Go to run.
2: Type "regedit" without the quotes.
3: Click Hkey_Local_Machine.
4: Click Software.
5: Click Ea Games.
6: Delete the folders that have the same name as the games you want to get rid of. Eg the folder for Battlefield Vietnam is probably Battlefield Vietnam.
7: Exit.

That should work I guess..

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Also I had sometihng like this in BF42. Look into the disk(Right click--Search) and manally click on the insatller, thats it.

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i think it worked ... thanks lupin :)

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it worked for veitnam but mohaa still dosent work....