How to actually use the annoying EA Uninstaller

Posted on January 14th, 2007 by MASA.
Categories: Gaming, PC.

Seeing that EA has not posted anything on how to uninstall their games and it is the most annoying process to figure out yourself, I wrote this article to help people with uninstalling EA games.

I am starting to run out of precious hard drive space, and considering that NFS Carbon Demos are taking up some 800+MBs I decided to uninstall them. Until I found out that the game acts like spyware and you can’t uninstall the games because the EAUninstaller claims that a file called EAinstall.dll is missing or EAinstall.dll was not found.

However, there is a fix. In order to uninstall EA Games you have to move the EAinstall.dll to C:\WINDOWS (or C:\WINNT if you are on NT/2000).

If you can’t find EAinstall.dll you can download it here.

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tor

Comment on January 18th, 2007.

Thanks man really needed that

MASA

Comment on January 18th, 2007.

Sure, glad to help out.

Remco

Comment on January 20th, 2007.

Excellent: I got here on the Google Train and found just what I needed. Thanx!

Fangor

Comment on January 20th, 2007.

Yup. Plenty of thanks man.

MASA

Comment on January 20th, 2007.

Yep you are both welcome.

loal

Comment on January 21st, 2007.

Thank you. EA’s uninstaller sucks!

Jonny G

Comment on January 21st, 2007.

Thank you very much MASA, you turned an hour hair puller into a 3 min uninstall. Ea still has nothing on their support site about this problem… Blah

Andy

Comment on January 23rd, 2007.

thanks dude!!!!

Mike

Comment on January 29th, 2007.

Cheers fot that

Why do they do it

Zarakan

Comment on January 30th, 2007.

Exelent job! Thanks a lot.

kote

Comment on January 30th, 2007.

MANY THANKS!!! SUPERB ADVICE ;)

Best Wishes! Be Happy!

kerry

Comment on January 30th, 2007.

does it work the same for xp systems

MASA

Comment on January 30th, 2007.

Yes it does. This method works in Windows 2000 and Windows XP

MASA

Comment on February 7th, 2007.

This article hit digg, check it out:

http://digg.com/software/How_to_uninstall_EA_Games

mikiemanna

Comment on February 10th, 2007.

spanks a lot

Vintage

Comment on February 11th, 2007.

it works. thanks!

Myles

Comment on February 21st, 2007.

God, I hate EA, good games but i still hate them.

Betalyte

Comment on March 5th, 2007.

WTF? Yeah, like spyware! Lame EA, with supercool games, but apperently über lame uninstall!!

wizdom

Comment on March 11th, 2007.

it works. hanks for the dll file

K@'BeeR' $ 'BaR'

Comment on March 13th, 2007.

THNX!

Anonym

Comment on March 15th, 2007.

Thank you so much!
Dang EA cant get their uninstall to work correct but thumbs up for you, guy who helped me.

MASA

Comment on March 15th, 2007.

Yep, glad to help

Trefex

Comment on March 18th, 2007.

Awesome !!!!

Anders

Comment on March 20th, 2007.

Dude! Awesome… Thanks!

MASA

Comment on March 24th, 2007.

Sure, glad that it worked for you

Kage

Comment on March 31st, 2007.

Wohoo, thx dude!

D

Comment on April 1st, 2007.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MOOTS

Comment on April 4th, 2007.

million thanxs got rid of that annoying game

MASA

Comment on April 4th, 2007.

You are very welcome

chris

Comment on April 8th, 2007.

how do i unistall the ea link ? not any games, because when i go to remove it from my computer it only works for half then stops

MASA

Comment on April 8th, 2007.

I am not sure what you are asking about. What exactly do you mean by “the ea link”?

Rain

Comment on April 13th, 2007.

Chris the ea link will not uninstalll for me,Masa we are not trying to unistall the games we dont want the link anymore byt when we try to uninstall through remove programs it goes half way then quits……never uninstalling the link itself

MASA

Comment on April 13th, 2007.

Hm, I don’t think I have EA Link.

But I do know it runs using IE. So what you can do is try cleaning out your browser cache, and then try removing it again.

If it fails, then uninstall it using CCleaner’s Uninstall Utility (go to here to download the program, install [make sure you use the advanced install and uncheck the install yahoo toolbar], the in the program go to tools and scroll down the list of uninstallable apps and choose EA Link [it could also be called EA Downloader]. Then click uninstall). It should give more CPU/RAM power to the uninstaller, which when using Add/Remove Programs, is normally hogged.

It should work but if it doesn’t, I will go install EA Link and then try to uninstall and see if I can find a solution.

High

Comment on April 14th, 2007.

thanx a lot ! greetings from Croatia

pau

Comment on April 18th, 2007.

thanks a lot! very helpful! from the philippines

Ainjel

Comment on April 21st, 2007.

Thank for your help, I realy needed it.

MrMale

Comment on April 23rd, 2007.

Thanks for the guide but im having another kind of prob-

I coped the eainstaller.dll to win/system…

now when i try to un-install carbon it gives me this msg-
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/5742/injz3.jpg

very strange.. Thanks in advance

MASA

Comment on April 23rd, 2007.

That’s extremely odd. I have 2 suggestions for you. It would seem like you are on Windows XP. And by the looks of it, it would seem that the dll is corrupted, or something is wrong with your windows installation (I think it is the first one).

Either download the one I provide (again if you have already) or try copying the dll to your desktop, and then move the dll to your Windows directory again.

Pulsar

Comment on June 11th, 2007.

Thx, strange that EA does not report this on there support site

Mrmale, maybe you can try to register the dll file with regsvr32.

MASA

Comment on July 9th, 2007.

Yeah, somehow EA doesn’t see this as a “problem”

bullumama

Comment on July 12th, 2007.

thanks man i was trying 2 delete the carbon which i did atlast by ur help, if ur trick wouldnt hav happened then i would end up playing carbon carrear for the ninth time……..lol

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TACOS

Comment on September 22nd, 2007.

omg i love you masa!!thanks!!

innocent

Comment on September 26th, 2007.

Thanks a lot, man!

Now I can play my Sega Rally Revo without worrying about the harddisk space…

the person who really to thanks you

Comment on October 8th, 2007.

thanks ,you are the best.now my pc is better…

Marco

Comment on October 29th, 2007.

Thank you!!! You’ve just saved an italian guy XD

Gumby

Comment on November 5th, 2007.

Good, thank you so much! You are a big help. I owe you one. :P

winston

Comment on November 11th, 2007.

plenty of thanks

vince

Comment on November 18th, 2007.

great… I have been trying delete it for months… this post is 200% helpful… i love it

Cody

Comment on December 15th, 2007.

Very, very helpful. Thanks for the tip!

NickTheGreek

Comment on January 29th, 2008.

thanks a lot man. you cannot imagine how long i was looking for this tip. They’ll never stop piracy!!!!

Alfalogic

Comment on January 31st, 2008.

Thank you man, very helpful.

Jack

Comment on February 13th, 2008.

Thanks a lot for your help. After I copied the dll in windows folder, the uninstaller worked.

Mark b

Comment on February 18th, 2008.

Thanks for the help! EA=Retarded.

Chin

Comment on February 27th, 2008.

Hey, I tried what you said, I copied EAInstall.dll in C:Windows… but when I uninstall it says C:Windows/EaInstaller.dll is not designated to run on windows or contains an error. I am using Windows Vista , any suggestions?

sundeep

Comment on February 27th, 2008.

Hey Masa your article has been great help.

my system was crawling wiht the EA games, now i got rid off them all

Hectorjr99

Comment on March 18th, 2008.

Cheeeeeeeeeeeeers!!! Gracias amigo!!! Articulo de gran ayuda!!!

Jal

Comment on March 31st, 2008.

hey MASA U R Da MAN!!!!
need another tip…i have installed carbon and prostreet on my laptop…but they dont run..they say run in 800*600 resolution…i changed the resol but still it has the same prob..jut does not load

MASA

Comment on April 7th, 2008.

Hm, I would try running the game as an administrator. If that doesn’t work, try googling your problem

gngn

Comment on April 13th, 2008.

thanx for the info!
and shame to EA for this!

onslaught83

Comment on April 28th, 2008.

Excellent solution. Thanks a lot.

Puma

Comment on May 18th, 2008.

Were is download for EAInstall.dll?plzz

yoyo

Comment on June 21st, 2008.

Thanks a lot for uploading the eainstall.dll program. Has been trying so hard to uninstall NFS carbon but to no avail. Thanks a lot!!!

Bosnian

Comment on July 21st, 2008.

thanx a lot ! greetings from Bosnia

seth

Comment on August 7th, 2008.

thanks a lot man…

Rahul

Comment on August 28th, 2008.

You rock man .thnxx for helpin otherwise i wud hve stuck n dis crappy uninstaller wud hve nvr gt uninstalled

Tony

Comment on September 9th, 2008.

Fantastic!!! Thanks so much!!

Dan

Comment on September 10th, 2008.

Thanks man you helped me a lot!

Harsh

Comment on October 24th, 2008.

Thanks Man.

This game, NFS Carbon was taking lot of space of my Primary Drive & cudn even find how to Un-Install the Damn thing.I checkd out a few Games forums & they all were indirectly blaming for using Pirated Games .. :)

Thanks for your precious help. Keep up the Good Work.

Surya

Comment on November 2nd, 2008.

Thanks Man it works..!!

Rayland

Comment on November 8th, 2008.

Thanks! Saved me from a lot of trouble…

KuRiKaBu

Comment on November 9th, 2008.

thanks to you..your the man!!!

ballin

Comment on November 26th, 2008.

thnx alot been trying to get rid of it for a long time

Jase

Comment on November 29th, 2008.

Great work. Thank you.

rage

Comment on January 3rd, 2009.

am so glad i found this!

Marcio - Brazil

Comment on January 12th, 2009.

Muito Obrigado Amigo !!! To be happy !!!

Andrew

Comment on April 3rd, 2009.

Thank you so mch for this fix. I love EA NFS games but they are a pain in the neck when they crash and you have to search for a fix just to do something like uninstall it.

Jack

Comment on April 20th, 2009.

Thanx for the space, man. I really needed it.

IIExiTII

Comment on April 30th, 2009.

Oh Man,

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. Finally rid of the damn game! Thanks.

Jedi

Comment on January 3rd, 2010.

You are simply awesome!! 10/10

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