Very Bizarre Civ III Problem

[xygvx]

Hi, I'm new here, so take it easy on me.

I'm having so weird stuff happen with Civ III. I was having some trouble with it, so I was going to uninstall then reinstall it. However, when I went to "Add/Remove Programs" and told it to uninstall Civ III, the only thing that happened was that it added the Civilization3.exe file to C:\WINDOWS.

After that, I tried manually deleting the folder and reinstalling after I did that. But when I try reinstalling now, the setup program asks if I want to completely remove the application, etc., then adds the .exe file to the Windows folder like "Add/Remove Programs" did.

I've tried doing everything I can think of short of reformatting my hard drive. I've used WinDoctor and DiskDoctor, Cleansweep, RegCleaner, etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[Saunders1000]

Well since no one else has responded I'll try. I had the same problem. I was doing a bunch of things at the time so I don't remember exactly how I got rid of it but I think I reinstalled it to a different directory then uninstalled it with no problems. If that doesn't work and you have to reformat i suggest backing up your harddrive with nero burning rom after you've done the clean install. It has saved me a considerable amount of time and it's so easy to use. A quick format of the harddrive, then a boot into DOS with Win98 startup disk with cd-rom support, a simple command and you've got a perfectly restored system. I do a clean install configuring all my hardware and back that up, then I install my software and get it running perfectly then back the harddrive up again. Works great. Hope this helps you some.