Uninstalling and reinstalling?

Volcom929 · Jan 8, 2005, 05:01 PM

I recenetly uninstalled Call of Duty and Call of Duty:United Offensive. Well today I went to reinstall them and when i put the Call of Duty disk into the drive it starts up and instead of the install option it has the uninstall option. After clicking unistall it opens the DemoShield and then it just disappears. I have tried rebooting and have searched the HD's for any Call of Duty files to manually delete and cant find any. When I originally uninstalled the games I used the Add or Remove Programs feature under control panel. What am I doing wrong?

UPDATE
After going into the registry I found a Call of Duty folder under Activision...will I mess stuff up if I delete this? i doubt it but rather ask before i screw it up. Here is a screenie.

Volcom929 · Jan 8, 2005, 07:39 PM

I think there was somethng still in the registry makin the cd believe that the game is already installed. I used CCleaner to scan the registry and delete the entries that it found were no longer valid. This seemed to work because the game is installing now.

Jan 8, 2005, 05:01 PM	#1
Volcom929 DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 175 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Uninstalling and reinstalling? I recenetly uninstalled Call of Duty and Call of Duty:United Offensive. Well today I went to reinstall them and when i put the Call of Duty disk into the drive it starts up and instead of the install option it has the uninstall option. After clicking unistall it opens the DemoShield and then it just disappears. I have tried rebooting and have searched the HD's for any Call of Duty files to manually delete and cant find any. When I originally uninstalled the games I used the Add or Remove Programs feature under control panel. What am I doing wrong? UPDATE After going into the registry I found a Call of Duty folder under Activision...will I mess stuff up if I delete this? i doubt it but rather ask before i screw it up. Here is a screenie. __________________ AMD FX-53 w/ XP-120 & Panasonic 120mm Panaflow fan Asus A8V Deluxe Rev 1.02 BIOS 1009 ATI Radeon X1950 Pro AGP 2 GB Corsair XMS PC3200XL 2-3-3-6 Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro 2WD 10,000 RPM Raptor Hd's Raid 0 120GB Seagate 7,200 SATA LiteOn 8x dvd +/- RW LiteOn 52X CD-RW LiteOn 16X DVD-ROM PC Power and Cooling Turbo-Cool 510 Deluxe Last edited by Volcom929; Jan 8, 2005 at 05:37 PM.*

Jan 8, 2005, 07:39 PM	Thread Starter #2
Volcom929 DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 175 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	I think there was somethng still in the registry makin the cd believe that the game is already installed. I used CCleaner to scan the registry and delete the entries that it found were no longer valid. This seemed to work because the game is installing now. __________________ AMD FX-53 w/ XP-120 & Panasonic 120mm Panaflow fan Asus A8V Deluxe Rev 1.02 BIOS 1009 ATI Radeon X1950 Pro AGP 2 GB Corsair XMS PC3200XL 2-3-3-6 Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro 2*WD 10,000 RPM Raptor Hd's Raid 0 120GB Seagate 7,200 SATA LiteOn 8x dvd +/- RW LiteOn 52X CD-RW LiteOn 16X DVD-ROM PC Power and Cooling Turbo-Cool 510 Deluxe