silence Posted November 14, 2004 Report Share Posted November 14, 2004 I'm trying to uninstall The Sims 2 manually from Windows XP Home SP2 as described on www.thesims2.com. I am told to go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, click on SOFTWARE, click on Electronic Arts and delete The Sims 2. But when I click on "Electronic Arts" I get an error message saying that it's not possible to open Electronic Arts, that an error occured when the key was opened. I've even tried deleting "Electronic Arts" but I get an error saying that it's not possible since there's something wrong with it. Is there any other way of deleting this key than through regedit?I'd really like to fix this without having to re-install Windows XP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted November 14, 2004 Report Share Posted November 14, 2004 registrar lite is a good registry editor... not sure if it will help with the error you are getting but give it a go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted November 15, 2004 Report Share Posted November 15, 2004 I assume you uninstalled the programme first? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silence Posted November 26, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2004 Sorry for the delay. I tried uninstalling, but it didn't work, the uninstaller wouldn't start. Neither did it work to uninstall from the list with installed programs in teh Control Panel. That is why I've tried to uninstall it manually.Havn't tried Registrar Lite yet, I'll do that and post the results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted November 26, 2004 Report Share Posted November 26, 2004 Too late now, but make a backup of your registry before you edit anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted November 26, 2004 Report Share Posted November 26, 2004 Too late now, but make a backup of your registry before you edit anything.Start/Run/ Type regedit/click ok/File/Export/Give it a name and export to my documents or desktop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepricaun Posted November 29, 2004 Report Share Posted November 29, 2004 try it using the system account,here is a tutorial i have written which explains how to become system.hope this helps ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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