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Re:Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negat... by mananaysiempre on Saturday April 15, 2023 @07:33AM (#35579658)
These instructions actually seem somewhat strange to me: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\SentryAntiCheat, which is removed at the last step, would normally be the “Add & Remove Programs” list entry, right? Is the poster confused and did they not notice the anticheat in that list? Are the anticheat authors storing bogus data there? This whole thing seems strange.
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Re:Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negat... by _gabe_ on Saturday April 15, 2023 @09:05AM (#35580280)
Uninstalling a program via the Add or Remove Programs GUI doesn't clean up the registry entries. I noticed this awhile ago and realized I had hundreds of old registry entries for games I had uninstalled a long time ago.

Plus, most people using Steam uninstall games through Steam. So if Steam isn't cleaning up the registry that entry will stay there. I don't think the registry entry will do anything, but it can't hurt to remove it manually.

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