uninstall/reinstalling after fresh windows install

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OdinValknir

OdinValknir

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so yesterday I got me a fresh install of Win7... I had never done so where my games weren't on the same drive as my windows.. I had recently decided to put an SSD in to use solely for my windows a year ago or so... anyway.. my question being, I have a HDD with all my games installed, now having to reinstall them in order to play.. but some of them don't have uninstall exe in them and NONE of them appear under the windows add/remove nor under CCcleaner..

ideas?
 
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JackNaylorPE

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This is easy if you properly prepared yourself. Since the early 1990s, I have always partitioned my HDs for performance and organizational reasons. If ya had the OC on 1 HD partition and ganes on another it's a simply copy paste thing. Never let stuff go in C:\ProgramFiles.

If I understood you correctly, you installed Windows on the new SSD. Windows and all ya games are still installed on the HD. Easy (short term way) would be to simply install the games over themselves but would leave a mess. I'd suggest:

1. Create a new folder called Games .... I assume the HD is now D:\ So this would be D:\Games

2. Pick ya first game and find it's install folder, say:

D:\ProgramFiles\BigCheesegameCompany\BananaJuggler 3

3. Use CUT / PASTE to cut the [BigCheesegameCompany\BananaJuggler 3] folder from

D:\ProgramFiles\BigCheesegameCompany\BananaJuggler 3

to

D:\Games\BigCheesegameCompany\BananaJuggler 3

4. "Rinse and Repeat" for each game folder.

5. Now saved games are oft installed in a user directory .... will now be D:\Users since HD is D:\ . You will have to check and see where each game stores these and other files if you want to retain. What was in your user file on the HD will have to go in the same user file on the SSD.

6. Go thru the rest of your HD and save what you want to keep and delete what you don't. Of course best to make a backup before starting any of this.

7. Defrag the drive

8. Install all the games to the locations into the same folder.... when you start the install and it wants to default to

C:\ProgramFiles\BigCheesegameCompany\BananaJuggler 3

change it to

D:\Games\BigCheesegameCompany\BananaJuggler 3

The install will set up any appropriate registry entries if needed and will not overwrite any newer files which contain settings or anything else that you customized.
 
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OdinValknir

OdinValknir

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you're half right.. i had the SSD already.. i just simply wiped it and re-installed windows.. I have a separate HDD that i installed games on.. when i re installed windows.. i figured all i would need to do is drop new shortcuts.. but apparently that isn't the case.. all the .dll files that were written to the windows registry are gone and the games wont open.. so I have been told I need to re install each and every one.. but as they do not appear in the add/remove programs deal in the control panel.. and most of them do not have a uninstall executable file in their program files.. I'm lost as to how to get rid of them.. should I just format the drive that they are on and start that way? or is there a way to remove all the game program files and reinstall?
 
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