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  • #1

    Best way to uninstall/re-install?

    I've done something to my BtS and it won't load. I'm not sure what. My saves are still intact but I seem to have lost the right "program" to load and run them.

    I also can't find an "uninstall" command to remove BtS. Is there one? What's the best way to take everything off and re-install?
    Jack
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  • #2
    Control panel -> Add/Remove Programs



    When you say 'won't load' can you run it from scratch? What error do you get?
    <Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
    I like your SNOOPY POSTER! - While you Wait quote.

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    • #3
      Have you tried to simply run the setup/ install file from the DVD? This will maybe give you a reinstall/ repair option

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      • #4
        Thanks for your help.

        Snoopy: the add/remove worked fine. And the re-install was straight ahead. I don't know how to answer your question about a message except to say that my desktop icon had suddenly gone from being the Civ logo to being a plain yellow file folder that took me to a list of programs and asking me to choose which one I would like to run the game with. Obviously the .exe file was missing. I'm not a techie so I didn't waste a lot of time on it; just re-installed.

        Moonwolf: when I re-inserted the DVD several times, I didn't get the install option; I got only "Play/Read me/Exit". It wasn't until I removed all the files (almost: I kept the saves) that the install option appeared.
        Jack

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        • #5
          If you browse the DVD, you would probably find a setup/ install exe file there Can't tell you excactly where as I'm at work now. But good to hear you worked it out, being without Civ....

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          • #6
            Hmm, sounds like something strange happened to your windows installation. I'd run a few scans to make sure nothing else is odd... your registry probably became corrupted somehow, and that shouldn't happen...
            <Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
            I like your SNOOPY POSTER! - While you Wait quote.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by snoopy369
              Hmm, sounds like something strange happened to your windows installation. I'd run a few scans to make sure nothing else is odd... your registry probably became corrupted somehow, and that shouldn't happen...
              If I had a penny for every time someone from the IT department said "that shouldn't happen" I'd have a lot of pennies.

              RJM
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              • #8
                I have problems if I dont turn off Norton first
                anti steam and proud of it

                CDO ....its OCD in alpha order like it should be

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