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Gomek - 21 May 2008 21:15 GMT

Hi. I went ahead and installed a second hard drive the other day and
installed a program, only to end up deleting the partition the program was
installed on, I meant to do that. Obviously, when I went to reinstall the
program, the only option I have is to uninstall, but it comes back saying it
can not find the necessary files, etc. I can clearly understand why I'm
having this problem, and in hindsight, I should have taken the time to go
back and gracefully uninstalled the program before making the changes. Now
that I have slapped myself with a wet noodle, how can I let the computer
know that the file no longer exists and reinstall? Thanks.

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smlunatick - 21 May 2008 21:45 GMT

Locate a utility that would let you access the registry section which you can
remove the entry for this application. Spybot: Search and Destroy does have a
module to clean up the uninstall section.

>Hi. I went ahead and installed a second hard drive the other day and
>installed a program, only to end up deleting the partition the program was
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>that I have slapped myself with a wet noodle, how can I let the computer
>know that the file no longer exists and reinstall? Thanks.

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Gomek - 23 May 2008 01:34 GMT

For what it's worth, I "explored" the files on the CD the program was on and
run the install from there, all is fine now, thanks for everyone's help!

> Locate a utility that would let you access the registry section which you
> can
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>>that I have slapped myself with a wet noodle, how can I let the computer
>>know that the file no longer exists and reinstall? Thanks.

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DL - 21 May 2008 22:43 GMT

So using this app cd, doesnt give you the option to install or repair?
You might be able to use the MS Installer clean up utility

> Hi. I went ahead and installed a second hard drive the other day and
> installed a program, only to end up deleting the partition the program was
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> Now that I have slapped myself with a wet noodle, how can I let the
> computer know that the file no longer exists and reinstall? Thanks.

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Gomek - 22 May 2008 22:24 GMT

Thanks to all that answered. No, when I put the CD in, it just give me the
option to uninstall, which I choose, but the little demoshield box comes on
then nothing happens. I ran a registry cleaner a little while ago, but that
didn't seem to fix it.

> So using this app cd, doesnt give you the option to install or repair?
> You might be able to use the MS Installer clean up utility
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>> can I let the computer know that the file no longer exists and reinstall?
>> Thanks.

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db.·.. ><))) ·>` .. . - 22 May 2008 00:02 GMT

yeah,

when you deleted
the parent folder,
the keys for the
software were
orphaned in the
registry.

just run a registry
cleaner.

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> Hi. I went ahead and installed a second hard drive the other day and
> installed a program, only to end up deleting the partition the program was
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> have slapped myself with a wet noodle, how can I let the computer know that
> the file no longer exists and reinstall? Thanks.

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