How can I uninstall a program that states that it is corrupted and can not uninstall?

Question

Someone installed a game, from CD, that must have been corrupt, because when I try to remove it, tells me that it can't. Is there any way to get it off of my computer? I have Windows XP, if that makes any kind of difference.

I found the disk that they used, and even tried to uninstall it from that, but got the same message..the data is not valid or corrupt and uninstallation will not continue. I tried the restoring, but the guy that put it on had done it before, and did not remember when he did it the first time. He said the game was called Dungeon Keeper.

Answer 1

First you need to uninstall the program the hard way by going through Windows Explorer and remove the folder that the game is in.

Then you need to get a program to clean the registry so it can get rid of those dead links that the install program should have installed. Check out the selections on this Google search: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=GGLR,GGLR:2006-49,GGLR:en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=Registry+cleaner&spell=1

Many of those programs will offer a free version, but they will only show you what is wrong or they won't fix all the problems, until you buy the program.

Answer 2

Yeah, go back in time to before it was installed using System Restore and always have it on full blast if you've got a descent hard drive.