Windows 10. Cannot uninstall Bittorent, "you do not have permission"

bhollehday

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I screwed something up somehow. First of all let me start by saying i have a boot drive and a storage drive on this computer. Somehow i downloaded bittorrent and cannot uninstall for the life of me. I followed instructions for uninstalling through command prompt by finding the uninstall string inside the registry, but couldnt even find the file until i did a registry search and found it inside of HKEY CURRENT USER. No matter what i do bittorrent is stuck on an older version of itself, i can reinstall the new version but when i open a bittorrent file it ask if i want to downgrade. I dont want to wipe to computer, someone please help me rid of this bittorrent version stuck on my machine??

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https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hnrmlcbr13g5ns1/AABADcLjoWPweeC-gOfEqC8ya?dl=0
 
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Might try tools like CCleaner and the like, sometimes they can recognize and remove orphaned information.

The fun way is to go line by line through the registry.

Go through the user folders and the program files folders and delete the main directories for bittorrent. Take the application name, do a search in the registry. Every time you do see a line that looks like it belongs to bittorrent, delete it. Then run through with the publisher name, and finally the version. Search can also be used for this. Usually will take care of enough of it to prevent it from being recognized as an installed application.

The registry stores nearly everything, including the location of files

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Might try tools like CCleaner and the like, sometimes they can recognize and remove orphaned information.

The fun way is to go line by line through the registry.

Go through the user folders and the program files folders and delete the main directories for bittorrent. Take the application name, do a search in the registry. Every time you do see a line that looks like it belongs to bittorrent, delete it. Then run through with the publisher name, and finally the version. Search can also be used for this. Usually will take care of enough of it to prevent it from being recognized as an installed application.

The registry stores nearly everything, including the location of files
 
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