How to remove old Maya versions, when they actually already have been deleted?

[BenediZ]

Hello,

I have once manually deleted Maya 2016. But now there were still two non-existing versions shown in the App list.

When I try to uninstall or search them, it does notsucceed.

I guess there must be some content left in a directory.

It is also disturbing, because in the Autodesk Desktoptop App severyl Updates for these old builds were listed, despite they don't exist anymore.

Thanks

[BenBisares · Accepted solution]

When you say manually deleted, do you mean you did an uninstall or just deleted the folders? If you're comfortable editing the Windows registry I would try deleting any subkeys related to Maya 2016 found in

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk

I highly suggest to first export those keys above to have a backup because you can do some real damage to your Windows install if you don't know what you are doing.

[alec.andersenLP8AU]

@BenBisares is spot on! A simple uninstall with the uninstall utility or app removed will not remove older iterations. You'll want to perform a clean uninstall whenever you are removing Maya from a machine, linked below.

Perform a clean uninstall | Download & Install | Autodesk Knowledge Network

Hope this helps!

[BenediZ · Accepted solution]

I did the registry thing, indeed it found some items, thanks.

But still the menus kept to be there.

So I tried with Right-click to see the location, and saw a "start" folder. I deleted them and now the spuky stuff is gone 😄