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Anyone know if it's safe to delete those uninstallers that get copied in when a program is installed?  Primarily for the photoscenery stuff like megascenery earth.  I've got some of the few decent MSE tiles and every one of them puts a uninstaller.exe in with it, so I've got a couple dozen uninstallers taking up harddrive space.  I'd like to delete them if I can.

-Jim

Some un-install routines re-establish default files disabled at install.

If you simply delete the addon, as opposed to un-installing it, this will not happen.

How much room do they take?

regards,
Joe

yes you can delete the uninstallers.  the only problem with this.... is if you want to UNINSTALL whatever it was that you installed.... you will have to search EVERY FILE / EVERY FOLDER yourself to try and find all associated files/folders for your installation.

that means you have to go through every folder in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\FS2004 to try and find EVERY file that was put into FS9

go through C:\Documents and Settings\(user name)\Application Data\Microsoft\FS9 find all files associated to your install and delete.

then CAREFULLY, go to .... START > RUN > REGEDIT (computer system registry) ... and TRY  :-/ to find the REGISTRY entry for your installation usually found under:: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / Software / (program/software name)  and delete the entry here also.   ****** WARNING ****** BECAREFUL OF WHAT YOU DELETE AS IT MAY MAKE YOUR COMPUTER UNSTABLE AND QUIT RUNNING... causing you to have to reinstall WINDOWS!!!!!!






if you do want to delete the uninstallers... May i suggest a program called CCleaner from www.ccleaner.com .  it will remove the uninstaller for you.  Plus when you no longer want the INSTALLED program, and you hit the DELETE key to get rid of the program, it will search your computer for you and clean up all the other files that was associated to that install, including the registry entries so that you do not have to do it.

it can also ask as a DISK CLEAN UP, ADD & Remove Software, Registry Cleaner.

I have been using the software now for about 8 years and OMG the amount of CRAP that gets left behind after just 1 month of downloading / surfing the net..... ~500MB of junk gets cleaned up EVERY month.

Thanks Gents!

I know of CCleaner and it's the only program I would trust to do all that.  I use it on my work computer but not on my FSX system (I only trust Nick's guide right now and there's no mention of using it).  But I'm tempted to run it on that one too.  It's nice to know it follows up on improperly deleted (not "uninstalled") files.

I've got 20mb of uninstallers (couple dozen) just for some of my photoscenery alone.  I hate to have "fluff" laying around on the HDD if I don't need it.  And if I wanted to delete the 140 Gb of photoscenery (Megascenery, a little Megascenery Earth, FS Dreamscapes, OZx, Frank's scenery, couple others) then I'd probably just start over and reformat the drive.

Ya know, it's mostly for these downloadable photoscenery products and mesh products that can't be installed in one fell swoop.  Has to be downloaded and installed a few Gb at a time and that puts all that crap in there too...who needs 50 uninstallers?!

-Jim

Nick does recommend using CCleaner.  Its an easy "one-stop-shopping" way to keep your drives clean.