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Solve : Uninstallation of S.t.a.l.k.e.r does apparently not remove all game files?

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My problem is that uninstallation of the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. apparently not uninstall all of the game.

I did install S.T.A.L.K.E.R. SHADOW of Chernobyl on my computer to try if the previous patches and graphics drivers had resolved a problem with crashes I have with this game. unfortunately it did not resolve the crashes (But this is not the problem I NEED advise with right now). Therefore I uninstalled the game again.

Before I installed the game I did check how much disk space I had used. It was 106 GB.
When I had installed the game the used disk space was 112 GB.

When I had uninstalled the game I did expect the used diskspace to be back to 106 GB again. But it was not, it was 108 GB.

Since it was two GB more then before I installed the game I thought that something went wrong with the uninstallation. Therefore I did install the game once more and then uninstalled it directly after (this time I uninstalled it with "Add or REMOVE Programs" instead of the uninstall option in the programs menu).

After the second uninstallation I checked my used disk space and now it was 110 GB!

I tried to use a system restore point from before I installed S.T.A.L.K.E.R. the first time, but this did not reduse the used disk space. I also tried to search after files containing "stalker" or "s.t.a.l.k.e.r" on The hard drive but did just find an empty folder.

So my question is: Why does this occur? Is there anything I can do about it?
Some advice would be much appresiated, the problem is not that I am short of diskspace, but I don't like the idea of having several GB unusefull data on my hard drive.

My OS: Windows XP Home SP2So DELETE the stalker folder?Quote from: Soviet Genius on January 29, 2008, 09:17:39 PM

So delete the stalker folder?

The only folder I can find is empty.

One thing I don't understand thought, Yesterday after I had uninstalled the game, the used disk space was 111 GB, then after a while it was 110 GB. Today when I checked it was just 109 GB. Is it POSSIBLE that the disk space still in use just is some temporary files used when the game installed and will be delited by itself over time?Could be that.....or it could be windows temporary files.Do you try disk clean up in the poperties of the drive you install the game?

Do you have norton protected recycle bin or something similiar, try empty that

Any more info??De-fragment your hard drive.......
Download "Your Uninstaller 2006" its a program and its very powerful to installer most of the complicated software like Norton........

You would love to search for some cleaners that will clean your garbage for unnecessary files but "Your uninstaller 2006" has this option build in already.

Good luckThanks for all the advice.

I am already using disk cleanup utility and disk defragment regularly. I should check out "Your Uninstaller 2006" soon. Did read that the trial version of the program is free for use for an unlimited time, which is excellent.It's not necessary the game.
Every computer uses some allocated disk space for various processes, and it's not always obvious what is taking an extra space. Can be your hibernation file, for instance.So it might not be because of the game the extra space is used. I don't need to care much next time this happends then. "Your Uninstaller 2006" seems like an interesting and usefull program anyway.
I am pleased with the answers. Thank you all for the usefull info.


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