- Jul 9, 2010
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Uhhh, I just spend 20 mins. writing a whole detailed description of my problem and I lost it so here goes again lol!!
I have a external 1TB eSATA drive that connects to my HP HDX laptop. OVer the months and months, Ive installed many many games and apps on this drive ( Since the read/write times are significantly or at least moderately faster than the internal 500 GB drive). Instead of sitting there and uninstalling each game, one by one, which would leterally take hours, I was wondering if I could simply click on the h:\installed games folder, thenproceed to do a mass-delete. Now I realize this would wreek havoc on my registry, but in theory if I used a good reg cleaner after the manual deletion was done I'd be ok?? Im sure theyre'd be some stray registy strings here and there, but not enough to impact my machine negatively in any way. Perhaps run the reg cleaner a few times just to make sure?
Also, while Im writing for assitance here, Ive been having problems with my Gears of war installation. I installed this game a long time ago, then uninstalled it. Well, I Wanted to play it again and when I try to install it I get the infamous "error 1610". With tons and tons of research online, apparently this is a registry problem from some string that one of my prvious installs left behind. Evidentally it's a big enoigh deal to prevent the installation from occuring.. and I have tried EVERYTHING... tried about 8 reg cleaners, tried manually erasing GOW entries, and nothing.. same error each time.. its like theres some hidden string somewhere that the regcleaners cannot identify. I've read all the GOW forums and sometimes a guy here and there will get it to work but, not me... It's a shot in the dark but I figured someone may know something about this issue.. I feel as thou I may have to take a drastic measure to get this game installed... Just to be on the safe side, I installed it on a comp that's never had it installed on it before and it worked like a charm ... Thank you for your time.
REGARDS>
OBERSTURMFUHRER
I have a external 1TB eSATA drive that connects to my HP HDX laptop. OVer the months and months, Ive installed many many games and apps on this drive ( Since the read/write times are significantly or at least moderately faster than the internal 500 GB drive). Instead of sitting there and uninstalling each game, one by one, which would leterally take hours, I was wondering if I could simply click on the h:\installed games folder, thenproceed to do a mass-delete. Now I realize this would wreek havoc on my registry, but in theory if I used a good reg cleaner after the manual deletion was done I'd be ok?? Im sure theyre'd be some stray registy strings here and there, but not enough to impact my machine negatively in any way. Perhaps run the reg cleaner a few times just to make sure?
Also, while Im writing for assitance here, Ive been having problems with my Gears of war installation. I installed this game a long time ago, then uninstalled it. Well, I Wanted to play it again and when I try to install it I get the infamous "error 1610". With tons and tons of research online, apparently this is a registry problem from some string that one of my prvious installs left behind. Evidentally it's a big enoigh deal to prevent the installation from occuring.. and I have tried EVERYTHING... tried about 8 reg cleaners, tried manually erasing GOW entries, and nothing.. same error each time.. its like theres some hidden string somewhere that the regcleaners cannot identify. I've read all the GOW forums and sometimes a guy here and there will get it to work but, not me... It's a shot in the dark but I figured someone may know something about this issue.. I feel as thou I may have to take a drastic measure to get this game installed... Just to be on the safe side, I installed it on a comp that's never had it installed on it before and it worked like a charm ... Thank you for your time.
REGARDS>
OBERSTURMFUHRER
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