Series of messages from installer:

DMD v2.076.0 is installed on your system
Press 'OK' to replace by DMD 2.076.0
An error occurred when removing DMD v2.076.0
Run 'dmd-2.076.0.exe /f to force install

And using the command line has no effect - it repeats the above.

He got into this situation by accidentally installing Visual Studio and / or Visual D to C:\D where I told him to install D to.

At one point I told him to delete everything in C:\D and start over.  *That* was a mistake...

He's used a trial version of Revo-Uninstaller to remove contents of registry.  The issue remains.  How can we repair his system so that we can install D on it again?

Thanks.

On 17/09/2017 6:30 AM, Enjoys Math wrote:
> 
> Series of messages from installer:
> 
> DMD v2.076.0 is installed on your system
> Press 'OK' to replace by DMD 2.076.0
> An error occurred when removing DMD v2.076.0
> Run 'dmd-2.076.0.exe /f to force install
> 
> And using the command line has no effect - it repeats the above.
> 
> He got into this situation by accidentally installing Visual Studio and / or Visual D to C:\D where I told him to install D to.
> 
> At one point I told him to delete everything in C:\D and start over.  *That* was a mistake...
> 
> He's used a trial version of Revo-Uninstaller to remove contents of registry.  The issue remains.  How can we repair his system so that we can install D on it again?
> 
> Thanks.

Skip Revo-Uninstaller, no idea why you'd ever use such trial software.
Anyway what you want is CCleaner, standard software that all Windows installs should have on hand.

That should remove all references to VS quite happily. It does a lot more than just modify the registry too :)

On Sunday, 17 September 2017 at 05:30:51 UTC, Enjoys Math wrote:
>
> Series of messages from installer:
>
> DMD v2.076.0 is installed on your system
> Press 'OK' to replace by DMD 2.076.0
> An error occurred when removing DMD v2.076.0
> Run 'dmd-2.076.0.exe /f to force install
>
> And using the command line has no effect - it repeats the above.
>
> He got into this situation by accidentally installing Visual Studio and / or Visual D to C:\D where I told him to install D to.
>
> At one point I told him to delete everything in C:\D and start over.  *That* was a mistake...
>
> He's used a trial version of Revo-Uninstaller to remove contents of registry.  The issue remains.  How can we repair his system so that we can install D on it again?
>
> Thanks.



I sent him a copy of uninstall.exe from my D install root and Revo then "removed D from the list" so that seemed to work.  We ran D installer again and it worked!

On 2017-09-16 10:33 PM, rikki cattermole wrote:
> On 17/09/2017 6:30 AM, Enjoys Math wrote:
>>
>> Series of messages from installer:
>>
>> DMD v2.076.0 is installed on your system
>> Press 'OK' to replace by DMD 2.076.0
>> An error occurred when removing DMD v2.076.0
>> Run 'dmd-2.076.0.exe /f to force install
>>
>> And using the command line has no effect - it repeats the above.
>>
>> He got into this situation by accidentally installing Visual Studio and / or Visual D to C:\D where I told him to install D to.
>>
>> At one point I told him to delete everything in C:\D and start over. *That* was a mistake...
>>
>> He's used a trial version of Revo-Uninstaller to remove contents of registry.  The issue remains.  How can we repair his system so that we can install D on it again?
>>
>> Thanks.
> 
> Skip Revo-Uninstaller, no idea why you'd ever use such trial software.
> Anyway what you want is CCleaner, standard software that all Windows installs should have on hand.
> 
> That should remove all references to VS quite happily. It does a lot more than just modify the registry too :)

Be sure to check the latest news on CCleaner... it's been reported as being compromised.  Be sure to get a clean version.  (I've not used it as I'm not on a Windows machine.)

On Sunday, 17 September 2017 at 05:33:12 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
>
> Skip Revo-Uninstaller, no idea why you'd ever use such trial software.
> Anyway what you want is CCleaner, standard software that all Windows installs should have on hand.

http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2017/09/avast-distributes-malware.html
https://www.piriform.com/news/blog/2017/9/18/security-notification-for-ccleaner-v5336162-and-ccleaner-cloud-v1073191-for-32-bit-windows-users