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How can I remove all traces of the EVE Client from my PC?
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Jvpiter
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#21 - 2014-11-14 00:48:15 UTC
Kudos to Adria and Gosti for offering some genuine help in a thread even Chribba has decided to troll.


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La Rynx
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#22 - 2014-11-14 08:34:17 UTC  |  Edited by: La Rynx
format c:

install linux

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Nami Kumamato
Perkone
Caldari State
#23 - 2014-11-14 08:44:59 UTC
Sieges wrote:
I need to remove all traces of EVE from a Windows computer I am passing on. Is it possible to remove all reg keys and DLLs from the PC? I know that generally the uninstall scripts don't get everything. I found this link here which helps: http://community.eveonline.com/support/knowledge-base/article.aspx?articleId=60 but it does not discuss removing any reg keys and DLLs, etc that might be scattered out there.

EDIT: I would prefer not to re-install Windows.


Use the EVE uninstall and pass it back to local.
Trust me they'll reimage it anyway, without the slightest remorse + nobody cares you played EVE + local guys usually don't care + who da fak cares?
Unless...you're sending it back for audit...in which case...."may the odds be ever in your favour"

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Elena Morin'staal
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#24 - 2014-11-14 08:49:18 UTC
The simplest way is to run the CCP uninstall, then manually delete the system32 folder. This will ensure there is no trace of anything from Eve left.
War Kitten
Panda McLegion
#25 - 2014-11-14 13:18:42 UTC
My favorite electronic device adjusting tool should do the trick.

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Caviar Liberta
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#26 - 2014-11-14 14:09:24 UTC
War Kitten wrote:
My favorite electronic device adjusting tool should do the trick.


I format hard drives the same way.
Serene Repose
#27 - 2014-11-14 14:26:25 UTC
The easiest way to pass on a clean computer is to reformat and reinstall. Anyone who doesn't grasp that either
a.) believes in the computer boogie man, or
b.) I have no b.

We must accommodate the idiocracy.
Frostys Virpio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#28 - 2014-11-14 15:18:01 UTC
Grauth Thorner wrote:
Sieges wrote:

EDIT: I would prefer not to re-install Windows.

Could you explain why you don't want to do this? If you have the right stuff (a cd or usb or whatever that has Windows on it and the appropriate key) it takes only a few minutes to press next and fill out a couple of fields like pc-name and accountname, the rest is all a matter of waiting.


He probably only have a C drive and don't want to delete his porn folder...
Jean Luc Lemmont
Carebears on Fire
Viral Society
#29 - 2014-11-14 17:01:39 UTC
You can't. Eve gets into your very soul and you can never be rid of it.

On topic - stop using PCs to do thinngs you shouldn't be doing on them and you won't have this problem in the future.

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Phoenix Jones
Small-Arms Fire
#30 - 2014-11-14 18:11:33 UTC
You can try using a bowling ball. Roll it into your computer 20 or 30 times and it should remove eve, along with every other component of the computer.

Eve saves files in two locations (3 actually)
The installed folder (your client)
In your documents folder under games/eve. To find this, log into eve, take a screenshot. Find the screenshot.

3rd is a hidden folder in your user profile (Google appdata all one word). Check all user accounts including the default.

After that, some registry keys are left. Use a registry cleaner (powertools macecraft works and ccleaner should also work).

After all of that is done, shred your free space (option available in ccleaner I believe). What that does is overwrite all unallocated and free space on your drives with zeros. This makes it much more difficult to obtain data from the drive (undelete). Not impossible, but pretty much impossible.

Yaay!!!!
Ima Wreckyou
The Conference Elite
Safety.
#31 - 2014-11-14 18:17:36 UTC
install EVE Trinity

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baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#32 - 2014-11-14 18:38:33 UTC
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
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Fire.

You always say that.


It has a 100% success rate.
Sloeb
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#33 - 2014-11-14 18:38:42 UTC
Brutus Le'montac
#34 - 2014-11-14 20:11:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Brutus Le'montac
after deleting eve, use a free prgram called Ccleaner, run both the normal clean option, and the register cleaner.
this should delete all invalid/outdated register keys, including eve register keys.

i use this program a lot and it works very well.
just keep in mind to download it] from their own site, (piriform) or you might end up with bloatware.
the free to use version works good enough for this.

also next time, you might wanna install eve in a seperate drive, makes it far more easy to delete.

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Sieges
#35 - 2014-11-16 18:54:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Sieges
Doc Fury wrote:
Grauth Thorner wrote:
Sieges wrote:

EDIT: I would prefer not to re-install Windows.

Could you explain why you don't want to do this?


Passing it back to work most likely.




Yes. This! I just reformatted and called it good.
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#36 - 2014-11-16 19:37:38 UTC
Doc Fury wrote:
Grauth Thorner wrote:
Sieges wrote:

EDIT: I would prefer not to re-install Windows.

Could you explain why you don't want to do this?


Passing it back to work most likely.




Confirming that employers tend to frown upon their laptops being used for gaming.

There are plenty of other things they frown on their laptops being used for as well...

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
Hal Morsh
Doomheim
#37 - 2014-11-16 22:25:00 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
Doc Fury wrote:
Grauth Thorner wrote:
Sieges wrote:

EDIT: I would prefer not to re-install Windows.

Could you explain why you don't want to do this?


Passing it back to work most likely.




Confirming that employers tend to frown upon their laptops being used for gaming.

There are plenty of other things they frown on their laptops being used for as well...




He could just be protecting himself from some sort of metagaming or another.

Oh, I perfectly understand, Hal Morsh — a mission like this requires courage, skill, and heroism… qualities you are clearly lacking. Have you forgotten you're one of the bloody immortals!?
rofflesausage
State War Academy
Caldari State
#38 - 2014-11-16 22:28:39 UTC
revo uninstaller.
J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#39 - 2014-11-16 22:52:35 UTC
Doc Fury wrote:
Grauth Thorner wrote:
Sieges wrote:

EDIT: I would prefer not to re-install Windows.

Could you explain why you don't want to do this?


Passing it back to work most likely.




And that's why you set up a restore point, the moment you get the machine.P

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Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#40 - 2014-11-16 22:53:31 UTC
Hal Morsh wrote:
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:


Confirming that employers tend to frown upon their laptops being used for gaming.

There are plenty of other things they frown on their laptops being used for as well...




He could just be protecting himself from some sort of metagaming or another.


I see you have never met the wrath of the competent IT gods when they find StarCraft on your business laptop that stopped working for some reason that was probably not spilled coffee and/or zergling rush asshattery/rage related.. leading to the loss of a somewhat important presentation that someone didn't backup because reasons.

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
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