Need some help with an annoying issue

[Rosbjerg]

recently one of my harddiscs decided to suddenly change from E: to F: and my DVD drive vice versa. This was somewhat annoying, but not something I thought hard about untill suddenly I realised that all my games stopped working. I can't even uninstall them, since the program can't locate them. I can delete them, but then I can't reinstall them, since Windows still have them in it's regristry.

 

I've since installed some new games, which I don't want to uninstall - so I don't want to change the harddic's location - just remove the old entries. How do I uninstall these games? is there a program that can delete in from the regristry?

 

- Rosbjerg

[Sand]

What you need to do is edit the registry yourself. Tricky business if you don't know what you are doing but it is a quick operation if you do. You need to go to the Run menu and type regedit. Windows will find the program and start it up. You just need to do a search and manually delete the registries. I had that problem with Windows ME. Yeah, I know. What OS are you using, Rosbjie?

Edited April 5, 2007 by Sand

[Rosbjerg]

I tried that, but I couldn't find it all apparently.

 

I'm running XP Pro. What do I do exactly?

[Sand]

Open RegEdit and look for the registry codes. They are often under the name of the publisher.

 

Go into Edit and the drop down menu you should see "Find" then type in the name. You should find the registry. After find it, delete it.

 

Just keep in mind that I am not the most technical minded person and I am referencing how ME and Vista is does it and not XP, though there might be no differences.

[kalimeeri]

Easier just to change the drive letter back to what it was. All your games will then work again, without having to edit each game's registry setting. Disk Management console makes this relatively easy--locate the drive that stole the drive letter, change it to Z: or something, then put your original hard drive on its desired letter.

 

(Administrative Tools->Computer management->Disk Management)

Edited April 5, 2007 by kalimeeri

[LadyCrimson]

Yeah, I'd put back, uninstall the games you don't want anymore, then revert back to whatever drive letter assignment you want after, if applicable.

[Rosbjerg]

I'll try kalimeeri's option and if it, for some reason, shouldn't work - I can always delete them directly from the registry..

 

update:

Worked like a charm!! thanks for the feedback..

Edited April 5, 2007 by Rosbjerg

[taks]

wow, a success story involving MS winders, and its registry no less, solved in under 5 posts... with help from SAND!!! ZOMG!

 

taks

[metadigital]

I was going to suggest that you must have been fiddling with the BIOS (boot order of attached disc/ks), but as you fixed it I'll just add it as a postscriptum.