Cleaning Skyrim for fresh install

[Murf1]

Can someone please madvise me on competely removing Skyrim, mod manager and all, so I can reinstall with a fresh stable platform? It's pretty temacious about keeping old mods installed and save games and such. Thank you.

[Plastrader]

First you need to uninstall Skyrim(Captain Obvious to your service)

This is how:

1. Open steam.
   
2. From the menu select: Games>View games library
   
3. Right click: The Elderscrolls V: Skyrim
   
4. Select: Properties
   
5. From the tabs, select: Local files.
   
6. Click: Delete local game content...
   

 

After its been removed there are three folders you'll need to verify that they've been deleted.

There shouldn't be any Skyrim folder in "..\Steam\steamapps\common"

 

Delete the Skyrim folder from "..\Documents\My Games\"

e.g. "C:\Users\<user name>\Documents\My Games"

(This folder is where the game keeps its savegames)

 

Delete the Skyrim folder from "..\AppData\Local"

e.g. "C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Local"

(This folder is where the game keeps information about mods and etc.)

 

For the mod manager I don't know as I don't use any.

Edited February 5, 2013 by Plastrader

[Murf1]

First you need to uninstall Skyrim(Captain Obvious to your service)

This is how:

1. Open steam.
   
2. From the menu select: Games>View games library
   
3. Right click: The Elderscrolls V: Skyrim
   
4. Select: Properties
   
5. From the tabs, select: Local files.
   
6. Click: Delete local game content...
   

 

After its been removed there are three folders you'll need to verify that they've been deleted.

There shouldn't be any Skyrim folder in "..\Steam\steamapps\common"

 

Delete the Skyrim folder from "..\Documents\My Games\"

e.g. "C:\Users\<user name>\Documents\My Games"

(This folder is where the game keeps its savegames)

 

Delete the Skyrim folder from "..\AppData\Local"

e.g. "C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Local"

(This folder is where the game keeps information about mods and etc.)

 

For the mod manager I don't know as I don't use any.

 

 

Thank you so much for your reply. Did all above except didn't have the last one: ...|AppData\Local. Now I think I reboot and install from steam. Or I have the disc.

[Plastrader]

Thank you so much for your reply. Did all above except didn't have the last one: ...|AppData\Local. Now I think I reboot and install from steam. Or I have the disc.

You're welcome.

That "AppData" folder is by default hidden in the OS, to show these folders search the interwebs for:

windows showing hidden folders

 

(being a bit lazy here, sorry)

Edited February 5, 2013 by Plastrader

[rogerpenna]

 

Thank you so much for your reply. Did all above except didn't have the last one: ...|AppData\Local. Now I think I reboot and install from steam. Or I have the disc.

 

 

reinstalling from Steam means downloading EVERYTHING again?? gahhhh...

 

is there any way to save the game to a disc so I can reinstall without downloading it all again?

[Slingerswoman]

Even from a disk... I think you have to redownload everything... my question is... doin all this shouldn't delete my DLCs should it??

[Naratu]

game should install from the disk, but you will have to download dlc (dawnguard etc) and patches again

 

 

edit nvm read that wrong. you can make a backup of your games. but since you want a complete clean install, and probably did not back your game up right after installing the first time you will have to download it again.

Edited April 2, 2013 by Naratu

[TheChampis1]

Can someone please madvise me on competely removing Skyrim, mod manager and all, so I can reinstall with a fresh stable platform? It's pretty temacious about keeping old mods installed and save games and such. Thank you.

Also might want to make a backup in case you want to reinstall your previous game