Trying to cleanup an old laptop and a while back my son loaded Fallout 3 and I cant un-install it. The cleanup program keeps popping up a error window whenever i hit delete. Any ideas? Hope I dont need the disc, no idea where it is. This game takes up more space than all the other stuff combined,2,268.00 MB.

Trying to cleanup an old laptop and a while back my son loaded Fallout 3 and I cant un-install it. The cleanup program keeps popping up a error window whenever i hit delete. Any ideas? Hope I dont need the disc, no idea where it is. This game takes up more space than all the other stuff combined,2,268.00 MB.

 

Just delete the folder it exists in. Probably c:\program files\bethesda softworks\fallout

 

Not very clean, but in this case, having a few registry entries for Fallout 3 isn't going to hurt anything.

That application folder should contain an uninstall icon. Not sure if that is the one that is throwing the error.

I had some issues with a couple of games, I downloaded a program called Reg Cleaner IIRC, freeware, and it cleaned up the reguistry and allowed the uninstall to go through.

Personally, i don't even bother with the built in uninstallers since they can leave artifacts behind. I stick to Revo Uninstaller (use the free version, it makes no discernible difference) which lets you get rid of everything fully. I'm not sure if it's going to fix an error though. It's possible that the file itself was somehow corrupted, so you could try repairing the game through the uninstaller and then actually uninstalling it.