My games are gone, but I need a grieving process for Windows
August 20, 2016 1:15 PM Subscribe
Friday night the hard drive my Steam and Origin games were installed on died the death of the dreaded click. All is fixed, except for the Windows 10 uninstall programs menu.
Amazon has sent out a lovely new HD which is now in the system, and Steam is dutifully downloading my games. I even seem to have my saved games since they were either in the cloud or on the C: drive which is fine. However, the Windows 10 uninstall listing still shows all the old games as installed. When I click "uninstall" it takes me to the Steam library page and then... nothing.
What's the best way for me to clean this out? Microsoft has a utility for it but it doesn't appear to work in Windows 10. There are various registry cleaners but ehhhh.... I don't like the idea of messing around in there. Anyone have a recommendation?
Amazon has sent out a lovely new HD which is now in the system, and Steam is dutifully downloading my games. I even seem to have my saved games since they were either in the cloud or on the C: drive which is fine. However, the Windows 10 uninstall listing still shows all the old games as installed. When I click "uninstall" it takes me to the Steam library page and then... nothing.
What's the best way for me to clean this out? Microsoft has a utility for it but it doesn't appear to work in Windows 10. There are various registry cleaners but ehhhh.... I don't like the idea of messing around in there. Anyone have a recommendation?
Response by poster: Revo Uninstaller does the trick. Or a combination of things:
1: Revo uninstaller will successfully remove the program entry even if you just click "Uninstall" and then cancel. There's no need to do the registry cleaning part.
2. A few games didn't show up in Revo and I got rid of them by downloading them again, installing them, then removing them. Which is real dumb, thankfully they were tiny indie games.
posted by selfnoise at 2:39 PM on August 20, 2016
1: Revo uninstaller will successfully remove the program entry even if you just click "Uninstall" and then cancel. There's no need to do the registry cleaning part.
2. A few games didn't show up in Revo and I got rid of them by downloading them again, installing them, then removing them. Which is real dumb, thankfully they were tiny indie games.
posted by selfnoise at 2:39 PM on August 20, 2016
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I think the free version of Revo Uninstaller might be able to nuke items from the Add Remove Programs list. Maybe.
posted by kbanas at 1:48 PM on August 20, 2016