Those threads were old for a reason, since the program has since then moved to a different method of virtual webcam installing.
You can just un-install it from the windows program and features list.

Thank you, that worked perfectly.

I probably should have looked in there, but a) it should have been uninstalled when I uninstalled the software, b) the scripts which now seem redundant could easily be modified with one line to tell me this is obsolete, ...

I could go on, but I don't care enough about them to continue.

You get a gold star though, really appreciated.

*already has a silver star*
And the reason they are still there are for backwards-compatibility reasons, say if someone were to have it installed from long ago, update, and then suddenly have both webcams installed and causing issues or so

Yeah, I get it, it's the lack of coherence. Mine also had the same .bat files as .bat.bak (iirc), and it possibly makes sense that there might be a case where the previous version of the script is needed so then you would simply rename the .bak and use that.

In isolation this all seems fine, but we have a specific and apparently recurring situation where uninstall does not uninstall the software. This results in googling and searching and so on, so every crappy decision has a cumulative effect, adding to the complexity and wasted time in solving the problem.

Anytime you see a bunch of half baked clean up scripts you are almost certainly looking at a product that doesn't really know how to clean itself up. And .bat files can do a lot. Why not have one script that does 32 and 64? Add a menu, at the very least put a damn pause at the end so the user can see what happened.

Way too often those uninstallation Jiras just don't quite make it to the top. I know why, it's just frustrating when I'm the one picking up the pieces.

I'm ranting I know, I'm not ranting at you though. I've had a belly full of half baked software recently.

Originally posted by FurRiffic:

Those threads were old for a reason, since the program has since then moved to a different method of virtual webcam installing.
You can just un-install it from the windows program and features list.

It still has the above issue of having the virtual camera for me.

Originally posted by ShadowDragon000:

Originally posted by FurRiffic:

Those threads were old for a reason, since the program has since then moved to a different method of virtual webcam installing.
You can just un-install it from the windows program and features list.

It still has the above issue of having the virtual camera for me.

And did you try to uninstall it from the Programs and Features list?

Ok, so I'm commenting on something I wrote in 2017, but the point is that when you say "expeliarmus" you expect the "expel" bit to be honoured. BitDefender are my current go to for "people who can't uninstall their crap". Don't be BitDefender. Worst case, if you haven't uninstalled everything, put up a dialog box saying "Here are the next steps you have to take". Get an intern. I can actually send you an intern.
There are implications to you leaving device level software on a clients machine. This is why I posted originally.
Get that intern.

I know this is an old thread but I have run into this issue, already checked everywhere. Not in devices or in program & features. Google only shows two threads, and two FAQs. Neither thread helps and neither FAQ has anything useful. Facerig support requires a twitter account wich I don't feel like making or waiting in discord for a time before being able to try and contact them. Facerig has installed a PUP it wont uninstall, I cant uninstall and thanks to windows makes me unable to use a webcam.

Originally posted by Slashplane:

I know this is an old thread but I have run into this issue, already checked everywhere. Not in devices or in program & features. Google only shows two threads, and two FAQs. Neither thread helps and neither FAQ has anything useful. Facerig support requires a twitter account wich I don't feel like making or waiting in discord for a time before being able to try and contact them. Facerig has installed a PUP it wont uninstall, I cant uninstall and thanks to windows makes me unable to use a webcam.

I am not sure I understand what you mean. Did you uninstall it from Windows's add and remove programs?

Originally posted by david_animaze:

Originally posted by Slashplane:

I know this is an old thread but I have run into this issue, already checked everywhere. Not in devices or in program & features. Google only shows two threads, and two FAQs. Neither thread helps and neither FAQ has anything useful. Facerig support requires a twitter account wich I don't feel like making or waiting in discord for a time before being able to try and contact them. Facerig has installed a PUP it wont uninstall, I cant uninstall and thanks to windows makes me unable to use a webcam.

I am not sure I understand what you mean. Did you uninstall it from Windows's add and remove programs?

Hey, when I posted the original to this, the issue was that the camera driver had to be uninstalled separately. You could install "all" the software, but it was a two or three step process to uninstall it.

So the point you're trying to make, badly as it happens, is that you have to go into add/remove programs and uninstall more things than you installed. I haven't had to do this in a while, but I almost certainly had to clear up directories and Reg changes too.

It's lazy, just uninstall your software when I say "uninstall your software".