Ghost Recon - Uninstall Ghost Recon

Many gamers have experienced problems at one time or another when it comes to uninstalling, or installing Ghost Recon that are due to previous installations. The key to solving this problem is to eradicate all evidence that Ghost Recon was ever on your PC, and to do that it is nescessary to venture into the windows registry.

This is quite easy to do with the right tools and information, so follow these steps and you'll be up and running in no time. If for some reason this still does not solve your problem, jump down to the foot of this page where there is a manual solution from one of the development team. For the time being though - try this....

Control Panel>Add/Remove Programs. Check that there are no entries for Ghost Recon.
Download Regcleaner and run it.
On the first screen, look down the list and remove any Ghost Recon entries.
Select the Tools menu, then Registry Cleanup, then Automatic Reg Cleaner. Remove any Ghost Recon entries.

That should be it. The reg cleaner probably found about 3 old references to Ghost Recon that were causing problems. Now they have been removed all you have to do is restart your PC and start reinstalling.

To reinstall Ghost Recon correctly with all the required patches and both mission packs follow this system....

If you had previously backed up your save games etc, you'll now want to reinstall them together with the following settings file which hopefully you still have!

The following is From Jeff at RSE about crashing on installation
or uninstalling and what to look for so you can manually remove
remove the files that will hamper installing the game again.

If you crash during an install or uninstall (usually caused by installing without enough disk space or an interruption from anti-virus software), and the installer will not let you uninstall GR, taking the following steps should allow you to reinstall:

The directory you installed to. The default is c:\program files\red storm entertainment\ghost recon\

The following directory is usually on your c: drive:
c:\program files\Installshield Installation Information\D89EF3B3-4665-B7A9-A4235A6DC787\

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DELETE ONLY THE CONTENTS OF THESE DIRECTORIES, NOT THE DIRECTORIES THEMSELVES:
These are usually on your c: drive:
Windows 9X/ME:
c:\temp or c:\windows\temp

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DELETE THE FOLLOWING REG KEYS AND CONTENTS:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsft\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\D89EF3B3-4665-B7A9-A4235A6DC787

The directory you installed to. The default is c:\program files\red storm entertainment\ghost recon\

The following directory is usually on your c: drive:
c:\program files\Installshield Installation Information\D89EF3B3-4665-B7A9-A4235A6DC787\

Windows 2000 or XP:
c:\Documents and Settings\\Temp\D89EF3B3-4665-B7A9-A4235A6DC787\

Cause
This error is caused by a DLL that was installed on the system, such as Oleaut32.dll, Olepro32.dll, Asycfilt.dll, Stdole2.tlb, or others that are not compatible with that system. For example, version 3.50 of Oleaut32.dll is installed and used only by Windows XP and so causes this error if it is installed on a machine running any other operating system.

Resolution
The only way to avoid this error is to download and run the following executable that is provided by Microsoft.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/msninvestor/Patch/1.0/WIN98/EN-US/mcrepair.EXE

When you run this executable, when it prompts you whether you wish to overwrite Newer files, make sure to click YES for each file ( do not select "No" or "No to All" ).