Customize setup.exe or setup.ini files for older version of ACAD

[david195]

Is it possible to modify the setup files for ACAD 2018 so that it does not check to see if the program is already installed?  I need to do this since when I try, after doing a clean uninstall and many other suggested steps, the installation program checks for and finds that the core programs are already installed.  Unfortuanately they are not and I am looking for a way around this

[TravisNave]

Does it not show up in Control Panel?  You will probably have to remove its registration from the registry.  

[david195]

Hi,
It does not appear in the Control Panel. I have deleted everything in
the Registry that has Autocad or Autodesk in its name. I have also
deleted any file or folder with those words as well and I have been very
through about the process including any hidden files. That is why I am
now thinking that modifying the setup files might be a path forward

[TravisNave]

Unlikely.  I think Windows handles to the looking for that, not the setup.ini.  

You might check for the GUIDs in these registry locations:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

[david195]

Thanks Travis.  I went through those registry folders but found nothing
to do with Auto Cad/Desk.  There was something from FLEX