Help me with bf1942. I'm beggin' ya

[scooter_the_shooter]

I posted this at another forum and got no reply:help:





Hello this is my first post, I hope to learn a lot about the game here (I've had it for years but I suck, that’s why I mainly snipe/heal/repair).
Anyway I broke out my BF1942 and tried to install it again.
It said punk buster is there, but I know it is not. (I have an annoying habit of just deleting stuff instead of uninstalling it right) So common sense says to uninstall punk buster so when I tried I got this
"An installation support file could not be installed"

"The system cannot find the file specified"

So then I tried searching my computer for the word "punk" I thought if I deleted any trace of punk buster I could install it....I could not find anything to delete!

Then in an act of desperation I uninstalled bf1942 and the expansions. Then I tried to uninstall punk buster....to no avail, I got the same message, I went to Add/remove programs and tried there also and got the same message!
I'm running out of Ideas! How can I kill punk buster so I can install it again and play online? (I know you don't need it, but I don’t want to play with all the cheaters)
So can anyone and I mean anyone help me? I am not too good with computers, so I'll need Idiot proof instructions


Ps I've tried sending it to another file, but that did not work.

[GoreBag]

You're going to need to find the registry for punk buster and toast it. Is there no way to simply re-install punk buster over the old installation, though?

[scooter_the_shooter]

Well I fixed my PB troubles but now their is something more alarming:furious3:


I tried to patch the game to go online....and it says I already have the doggone patches:wall: I tried installing the game in a new folder...didn't work (thats usually how I get around this crap)


Any ideas

[Boohugh]

Uninstall the game, punkbuster, etc (using the uninstall program ~;)) then use this (http://www.worldstart.com/weekly-download/archives/reg-cleaner4.3.htm) to get rid of all your old BF1942 and punkbuster registry entries if they are still there. Then just start installing everything from scratch and you should be ok.

[hoom]

To make sure you're up to date on PB, you can google punkbuster for their website & they have a manual updater file you can grab.