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Can't uninstall oblivion.


darkprodigy4u

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Okay, so, I downloaded a mod that overwrites a texture, and I decide I'm not happy with it. I know one way to get all the default textures back! Re-install! In fact, I did this yesterday, and everything was fine. Now, I download the mod that overwrites the texture, and a couple other mods I ended up deleting, and somehow in all of that, the program used to unistall oblivion got deleted. So, when I try to click "uninstall" on the Oblivion Launcher menu, it gives me this:

 

"The Oblivion Launcher could not find the uninstall program. Run the setup.exe on the Oblivion install disk to uninstall."

 

Which, is really funny, because..ha ha...the disk used to install the game is also the one that is used to play the game. So, I popped it out, popped it back in, got the launcher menu again.

 

Went into control panel and Programs and Features (Using vista) to try to manually install it there. I click uninstall, the little box pops up, "This program requires administrator priveliges, blah blah, *click yes*" ...wait a few seconds, nothing happens. Try three more times, still nothing.

 

So, I go to program files>Bethesda Softworks>Oblivion> Uninstall Oblivion.

 

I click on that, it says "The item 'setup.exe' that this shortcut refers to has been changed or moved, so this shortcut will no longer work properly. Do you want to delete this shortcut?"

 

*click no*

 

So, I'm getting that sinking feeling that I've permanantly screwed up Oblivion and now my vampires will all have really tan skin with dark red eyes. :wallbash:

 

 

Any ideas how to fix this??

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I'm quite new to Oblivion on the PC so my comment is general. An excellent tool I have been using for some time to deal with this sort of issue with other applications is RevoUninstaller. It not only will uninstall anything you throw at it, but it also finds all the files that are typically left over after uninstalling. You can get it free at http://www.revouninstaller.com/ I haven't used it for Oblivion yet but I'm about to as I'm having a problem that's similar to yours.

 

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Yeah, I looked at the pinned "Reinstalling Oblivion Post":

 

http://www.bethsoft.com/bgsforums/index.ph...p;#entry8103714

 

I followed the steps to to uninstall (completely, i would've thought) Oblivion by going into my registry and uninstalling it there. I would've thought that by deleting the "Data" and "Bethesda Softworks" folder that it would get rid of everything.

 

I go through the reinstalling process, and everything I had from before was still there, including all my mods! So, I went into OBMM and deleted every mod except Knights.esp and Shivering Isles, then I spent close to an hour on TES Nexus redownloading all the mods I had, (excluding the retex one, of course). I load up oblivion, and i'm dismayed to find not only my saves still there, but the vampire eye/face retex! does this mean i have to go through and uninstall/delete everything AGAIN???

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I always have the same problem when uninstalling Oblivion. I went through the process described in the link provided in the stickied topic, but it didn't work and I was still stuck. The revouninstaller was the ticket. They should give away a copy of that program with every oblivion disc. Thanks so much for providing the link to that.
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Okay, so I got done with the Revouninstaller, and even though I'm 99% sure I did it right, when I load it up, I STILL SEE MY SAVES! And whats worse, even though it says my saves are in :c./username>....games>savedgames I can't seem to find that folder. There's a "Saved Games folder in my documents, but thats for microsoft games, the little games like polar bowler or something that game with the computer. Maybe it's because I'm using vista, and the folder isn't called that. I have no clue.

 

Aside from all that, running just oblivion goty with shivering isles/kotn installed (both disks), I loaded up my save where I'm pre-vampire, I sleep, I have the default pale vampire eyes, but my skin turned from white to tan. Perhaps I should install the Unofficial Oblivion patch and try again?

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