Half-Life 2

A way to uninstall Half-Life 2 from your system

Half-Life 2 is a Windows program. Read more about how to uninstall it from your PC. It is written by Valve. More info about Valve can be read here. More info about the application Half-Life 2 can be seen at http://www.valvesoftware.com. Usually the Half-Life 2 application is placed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Half-Life 2 directory, depending on the user's option during install. The complete uninstall command line for Half-Life 2 is C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam.exe. height2normal.exe is the programs's main file and it takes circa 679.00 KB (695296 bytes) on disk.

The following executable files are incorporated in Half-Life 2. They occupy 19.53 MB (20483496 bytes) on disk.

• hl2.exe (120.41 KB)
• bspzip.exe (306.00 KB)
• captioncompiler.exe (186.50 KB)
• demoinfo.exe (100.00 KB)
• dmxconvert.exe (546.50 KB)
• dmxedit.exe (1.60 MB)
• elementviewer.exe (3.05 MB)
• glview.exe (200.00 KB)
• hammer.exe (153.50 KB)
• height2normal.exe (679.00 KB)
• height2ssbump.exe (690.00 KB)
• hlfaceposer.exe (1.59 MB)
• HLMV.EXE (452.00 KB)
• mksheet.exe (692.50 KB)
• motionmapper.exe (251.00 KB)
• normal2ssbump.exe (673.50 KB)
• pfm2tgas.exe (612.50 KB)
• qc_eyes.exe (2.78 MB)
• shadercompile.exe (93.50 KB)
• splitskybox.exe (143.00 KB)
• studiomdl.exe (1.72 MB)
• vbsp.exe (1.19 MB)
• vbspinfo.exe (296.50 KB)
• vpk.exe (629.50 KB)
• vrad.exe (94.00 KB)
• vtex.exe (83.00 KB)
• vtf2tga.exe (704.00 KB)
• vvis.exe (83.50 KB)

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The information on this page is only about version 2 of Half-Life 2. You can find below a few links to other Half-Life 2 versions:

• 1.0
• 1.0.3.0

Quite a few files, folders and Windows registry data will not be removed when you want to remove Half-Life 2 from your PC.

The files below remain on your disk by Half-Life 2's application uninstaller when you removed it:

• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Steam\Half-Life 2.url

Use regedit.exe to manually remove from the Windows Registry the keys below:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Steam App 220

Additional values that are not removed:

• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\d:\softwares_installation\steam\steamapps\common\half-life 2\hl2.exe.FriendlyAppName

A way to remove Half-Life 2 from your computer using Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Half-Life 2 is an application released by Valve. Frequently, people try to erase this program. Sometimes this can be efortful because removing this by hand requires some knowledge regarding PCs. One of the best SIMPLE way to erase Half-Life 2 is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take the following steps on how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO already installed on your PC, install it. This is a good step because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very potent uninstaller and all around tool to optimize your PC.

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• navigate to Download Link
• download the setup by clicking on the DOWNLOAD button
• install Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take some time to get familiar with the program's interface and number of tools available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very useful package of tools.

3. Click on the General Tools button


4. Press the Uninstall Programs button


5. A list of the programs existing on your PC will be shown to you

6. Navigate the list of programs until you find Half-Life 2 or simply click the Search field and type in "Half-Life 2". If it is installed on your PC the Half-Life 2 program will be found very quickly. After you click Half-Life 2 in the list , some information regarding the application is made available to you:

• Star rating (in the left lower corner). The star rating explains the opinion other people have regarding Half-Life 2, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Opinions by other people - Click on the Read reviews button.
• Details regarding the program you wish to uninstall, by clicking on the Properties button.

For example you can see that for Half-Life 2:

• The publisher is: http://www.valvesoftware.com
• The uninstall string is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam.exe

7. Click the Uninstall button. A window asking you to confirm will appear. accept the uninstall by clicking Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will remove Half-Life 2.


8. After uninstalling Half-Life 2, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run a cleanup. Press Next to go ahead with the cleanup. All the items of Half-Life 2 which have been left behind will be found and you will be able to delete them. By removing Half-Life 2 with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no registry entries, files or directories are left behind on your system.

Your PC will remain clean, speedy and ready to run without errors or problems.

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Disclaimer

This page is not a recommendation to remove Half-Life 2 by Valve from your computer, we are not saying that Half-Life 2 by Valve is not a good application for your computer. This text only contains detailed info on how to remove Half-Life 2 in case you want to. The information above contains registry and disk entries that other software left behind and Advanced Uninstaller PRO discovered and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.