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Failed Installation #400

Closed humicroav closed 11 years ago

humicroav commented 11 years ago

I've got a 64-bit Windows 7. I'm a moron and during the Prey installation tried to install Prey into a read-only folder (C:\Windows/System32/icsxml). It didn't work, but when I tried to re-install Prey, the installer recognized that Prey had been previously installed and required it to be uninstalled before proceeding. The uninstall failed.

I tried ways to stop the installer from recognizing Prey on the system - I deleted CronService in System and deleted the CronService entry in the registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services). Everything's fine, but I still can't install Prey and I'm sure there's more lingering in the innards of my operating system. Any suggestions on how to fix this mess?

ghost commented 11 years ago

If you have Windows 7 64-bits, there is one more registry key to be deleted.

According with http://support.preyproject.com/kb/installation/i-removed-the-prey-folder-by-hand-and-now-cannot-reinstall-windows these are the registry keys you must uninstall.

HKLM\Software\Prey HKCU\Software\Prey HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Prey

Also check that there is no key referencing to Prey in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run.