Grrr!!!

[player1]

I can't belive it.
While deinstalling some older games, I also deinstalled Sierra Utilities.

And by doing that, it automaticly deinstalled both Civ3 and Neverwinter Nights.
Grrr!!!

Can't belive it happening, considering that Sierra is in no way related to these two games.
(maybe some bug in deinstaller?)

Grrr!!!

All those lost saved games.

[spy14]

Ouch. Did you use the Windows control panel for removal or another program?

[player1]

control panel

I have no idea what got wrong.

[Vince278]

Holy crap!
Thanks for the warning. Sierra and some others like to get their hooks into our PCs and software. I had no idea how deep those hooks were.

[Dis]

death to Sierra

[spy14]

Some of these programs just think that they are god. Or rather their programmers do.

Anyone that is patient enough can unpick that kind of crap from the system (-sigh- another trip into regedit ). Others can just take pot luck.

[vondrack]

Actually, I had the same happening with Pharaoh and Emperor: RotK (Sierra stuff or related, too). Either of them automatically uninstalled the other one first... I found a workaround on the Sierra support pages (clickable link, should bring the relevant answer up).

[Dauphin]

I've never seen anything like that happen before.

[Kloreep]

Originally posted by vondrack
Actually, I had the same happening with Pharaoh and Emperor: RotK (Sierra stuff or related, too). Either of them automatically uninstalled the other one first... I found a workaround on the Sierra support pages (clickable link, should bring the relevant answer up).

Yeah, I have the same problem.

However, I don't think that (duplicate installation strings) is what's happening here. If it was, Sierra Utilities would have brought up the uninstallation of the other progs it uninstalled when it was first being installed. I think this is probably just an issue with the programming of Sierra Utilities...

[spy14]

They would be unlikely to have a walkthrough on the issue if they didnt know of it being a "feature" of their software.

[vee4473]

this may be a silly question, but did you check to see if it deleted the save games folder? I don't think all programs remove everything at uninstall..maybe?

[player1]

The thing is that action of uninstalling Sierra uitilities deleted almost everything, including saves.

Some files did remained, but I think that those were patch leftovers.
Also, option to deinstall Civ3, Conquests and NwN stilll remained in add/remove programs (later I removed it too, in order to do clean install).

[Paddy]

that is a real shame old chap

/me passes Player 1 a coke

some companies do go to ar in what the attach their programs too....

[Harovan]

Ouch! That's why I store my precious saves not in the games directory, but in a special folder in My Documents, which I back up (errr... or at least I should... ). Learn from it . Anyway, Civ3 is not a big deal, but that NWN is lost is really a shame

[Alex]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
Anyway, Civ3 is not a big deal, but that NWN is lost is really a shame

Best joke of the week!