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Can't Uninstall Maya 2008?

Hey, this is a weird problem I’m having, and it’s kind of got me stumped. =P It’s not related to Zbrush directly, so I figured I’d drop it here. At this point, I’m just about out of ideas.

Awhile back, I tried updating my Nvidia drivers, which caused some issues with general use/Maya/Zbrush everything (Thanks Nvidia). After some hassle, I uninstalled all Nvidia drivers completely, cleaned my drivers, and did a fresh install back to the known working version.

But somewhere along the line (as I am finding out now), Maya 2008 ULTD got corrupted somehow. It works, (intermittantly), but has a lot of scaling issues/display issues, and manages to crash my OpenGL drivers at odd intervals. (Because I have Vista, the drivers will recover, but after that, it will continuously crash every 15 minutes or so of use- and tends to cause Zbrush to crash, too.)

If I use Zbrush without Maya’s crashing the driver, then Zbrush works fine- So I’ve narrowed the problem down to a definitely corrupted Maya Install.

So I tried doing the typical Control panel/Uninstall (note: I have UAC deactivated, so yes, I am technically always ‘running as administrator’)- and the uninstall menu hung at "Gathering information.

Using the Autodesk uninstallation icon produced the same result.

So I tried loading up my disk and doing a Maya 2008 Repair- which also hung.

So now I have no idea how to remove Maya from my system such that I can do a clean install or repair it.

Has anyone else dealt with this/know a way I could go about purging Maya?

Try the fresh install in different localization and if new maya will work fine, remove old manually. Then use something to clean the register.
Maybe that will work oput?
You got a wierd issue :wink:

Download Wise Registry Cleaner, and check all options, and delete ALL it finds, including the unsafe ones. Reinstall the driver software. Maybe that helps.