Add remove programs?

[Ralph Beaman]

I have windows XP, and i was browsing my Add and Remove programs in the control panel and i could not find CMBB or CMBO, whats the deal?

[Schrullenhaft]

CMBB doesn't use the Windows Installer, so it doesn't get listed. The BTS/BFC version of CMBB is a self-extracting RAR archive that doesn't add any files into the Windows directories or any settings to the registry, so an 'uninstaller' isn't really necessary.

If you used the 'installer' for CMBO (BTS/BFC version) it should have been listed in the Add/Remove Programs control panel. If you just copied the files over manually, then it won't be in the list.

The CDV and possibly the retail versions probably all had installers, so they should normally appear in the Add/Remove list.

[Panzertruppe]

Strange but the CDV version of CMBB will appear in your "add/remove" programs but the CDV version of CMBO-SE will not, because you do have to install that program manually.

[Ralph Beaman]

So if i used clean sweep will the CMBO program be completly gone so i can install it again?

[Schrullenhaft]

You can highlight the 'CMBO' directory and just delete it and it will be gone. There is no need for a program like CleanSweep unless you feel an overpowering urge to use it. If CleanSweep or any other similar program is running when you do the install of the game, then it could probably remove it (since they 'track' what a program installs) - an installation of CleanSweep after the fact probably won't uninstall CM. CM lacks registry entries nor does it dump additional files into the Windows directories, which many programs can (and must) do - the removal of which is the primary reason to use programs such as CleanSweep.