Vista - Noobie did a dum thing.....

Hi everyone,
i come from the Mac world and had a pc built for gaming. Now for my dum thing..... I installed Turning Point the other day and when I started to play it the screen came up blue ( I am using my big screen dlp as a monitor ). I realize now that happened because the tv didn't recognize the resolution the games are shipped in and I needed to hook up a smaller 22" so i could change the res to 1920x1080. Well anyway...I dragged the folder to the trash and emptied the trash, the way you delete on a Mac and tried to re-install the game. When I do that it tells me the game is installed and won't re-install. I know now I should have gone into control panel...programs...uninstall. I look there and the program shows being there but it won't let me uninstall it. It asks me if I want to remove all parts of the program, i click yes and it says that the program was inturrupted and did not uninstall. Any ideas on how I can delete/uninstall this so i can re-install it??
I kinda confused and I just wanna kill people

Thanks,
Rick
Ah......Only if they would have GOOD games for Macs

Reinstall the game to fix the uninstall. Uninstall to remove it from Add/Remove programs.

Thats the problem, when i go to reinstall the game it says it wont because it is allready installed. When i go to uninstall it, it wont because the uninstall get "interuppted".
I was going to run reg seaker when i get home and see if that cleans it up. If i do a search for the game it doesnt find anything.

try a program called ccleaner.

CCleaner can wreck Vista. I will see if I can find the link to the Windows installer cleaner tool.

Description of the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility

SCSIraidGuru,
have you actually seen ccleaner mess up Vista or are you just trying to cause fear???? Sorry, I use ccleaner on two vista based pcs and have NEVER had a problem. In fact the latest version is vista compatible.

Rick03038,
What you may need to do is open the system registry, back it up (Export), then do a search for Turning Point or maybe the games producer. Delete all instances you find. The rerun ccleaner/your fav. system registry cleaner. Then you should be able to re-install the game.

I have heard from several users on other forums about it doing strange things to the registry in Vista x64. You have to be careful cleaning out a registry.

I was about to go to sleep, but I had to comment here. I do not recommend following pweegar's advice on editing the registry. You will more than likely do more damage to your computer than good. Do try out what SCSI suggested with the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility as I have also used this and know it to be a pretty useful utility.

Good luck

I have used ccleaner with no problems. I would NOT recommend a program that I think would do damage to a users computer. If I did I would have no customers of my own. How people use software dictates how it works. Before allowing any program to change registry settings always review them yourself. A registry editing program is handy for finding errors, then you sort them out yourself.