My friend can't install DMD 2.076.0 after he deleted contents of C:\D

[rikki cattermole]

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 :)