Problem uninstalling Medal of Honor

[benchok01]

Does anyone know how to uninstall Medal of honor or remove it from Window XP altogether. I ran the uninstall option, but that didn't exactly worked the way it's suppose to. Now each time I try to reinstall Medal of Honor the installation setup treat it as though I still have it on my harddrive. I've tried manually deleting any reference to the game by delete all associating folders. I even went into the registry to delete any instances pertaining to electronic arts, medal of honor etc. I must be missing something here, because the setup program still see medal of honor, or some residue of it still being register to my operating system. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[minendo]

Did you go into Control Panel ---> Add/Remove Programs?

 

[stndn]

short version

or the long version of my post towards the end of this thread

here's a summary:

i don't have the game, so i can only give my opinions based on what people are experiencing as well as my experience working with installshield...

it seems like they messed up their installer script. it's not their fault for not including a "backup plan" if installation fails in the middle -- most people working with installshield have had this problem, including me.

if you encounter problem where you cannot un/install the software, there are ways you can do to "trick" the installer to think that you are doing new install (instead of repair/upgrade). please note that this is not supported and i take no responsibilities if it fubar-ed your computer setup backup your system before attempting this:

+ look for c:\program files\installshield installation information. it's a hidden directory. in there, there will be a bunch of directories with strange strings (the so-called GUID). one of them corresponds to the GUID of MOH:AA (which is 0dea94ed-915a-4834-a87e-388d012c8e02). delete this directory
+ in the registry setting, search for the same GUID and delete their occurences
+ based on the feedback from their support, in the registry, look for and delete "Medal of Honor" and "MOH"

after that, retry the installation. either of these will happen:
+ you will be able to (hopefully) successfully install the software, and everybody lives happily ever after
+ your installation won't be completed, and you will get the same unpack error. this will mean you got a defective disk (they didn't package the files correctly). take it back to the store and exchange it
+ you are presented with repair/modify/remove screen. if this happens, you still got leftover key(s) that has not been removed (this one is searched by the installer software to determine whether you have installed it previously). look for it and kill it, or ask EA's "support" team to help you out


good luck
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