Maya 2016 still thinks its installed -

[Sofronis Efstathiou]

Hi,

 

Hopefully someone can help.

 

I just uninstalled Maya 2016, with the intention to reinstall it this afternoon (this occurred after installing Maya 2016 SP5 which completely destroyed it).

 

Anyway – in a Maya’s magical way – although Maya 2016 is no longer in the Control Panel in the Program list, when I run the Autodesk installer – it still believes Maya is installed. So I can’t install it again. I kid you not. Maya 2016 Is also weirdly still on my start menu. I’m on Windows 10.

 

Maya 2015 still works though. I uninstalled the entire 2016 suite and rebooted a number of times. Maya 2016 still exists in its own bubble though - somewhere.

 

I’ve searched a ton of stuff online – it seems the registry key maybe the problem – I have no idea how to get search for it and get rid of it. Anyone have any tips? Windows Fixit is not available (for Windows 10) – so can’t use that.

 

Never had this before. Its driving me crazy.

 

Sofronis (Saf) Efstathiou

 

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[Eric Thivierge]

Recently had a similar issue with the trial. Use Revo Uninstaller if you can. There is a mode that will search out things in the registry as well.

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[Stephen Blair]

Look for something like

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Autodesk Maya 2016

If you go into Control Panel > Uninstall or change a program, and try to uninstall Maya 2016, do you get something like this?

That would allow you remove the Maya entry, and then you should be able to re-install

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 8:19 AM, Sofronis Efstathiou <sefst...@bournemouth.ac.uk> wrote:

[Sofronis Efstathiou]

Thanks Stephen,

 

Thank you for your suggestion. Unfortunately, windows uninstaller doesn’t even recognise Maya existence. Let me try Eric’s suggestions, I think it’s to do with the registry keys – and Revo may be able to help.

 

Cheers

 

Sofronis (Saf) Efstathiou

 

Principal Lecturer and BFX Competition & Festival Director

Computer Animation Academic Group

National Centre for Computer Animation

Email: sefst...@bournemouth.ac.uk

 

Tel: +44 (0) 1202 965805

 

Profile: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/sofronisefstathiou

Student Work:

http://www.youtube.com/NCCA3DAnimation

http://www.youtube.com/NCCADigitalFX

http://www.youtube.com/NCCAAnimation

 

  

 

 

 

Awarded for world-class computer animation teaching

with wide scientific and creative applications

 

[Stephen Blair]

You could probably figure it out with Process Monitor.

Run Process Monitor when you try to install Maya 2016. As soon as the installer says that Maya is already installed, then stop Process Monitor. 

That should show what registry entries or files the installer is looking at.

[Sofronis Efstathiou]

Thanks Stephen,

 

And thanks Eric,

 

Revo seems to have done the job. Its cleared the registry, allowed Maya to be installed and I think removed a previous problem where Maya becoming randomly irresponsive for a few seconds when working in the viewport.

 

Let’s hope it continues to work. I’ll maybe leave off installing SP5 for a few years.