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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Thanks man really needed that
Excellent: I got here on the Google Train and found just what I needed. Thanx!
Yup. Plenty of thanks man.
Yep you are both welcome.
Thank you. EA’s uninstaller sucks!
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
Cheers fot that
Why do they do it
Exelent job! Thanks a lot.
MANY THANKS!!! SUPERB ADVICE 
Best Wishes! Be Happy!
does it work the same for xp systems
Yes it does. This method works in Windows 2000 and Windows XP
God, I hate EA, good games but i still hate them.
WTF? Yeah, like spyware! Lame EA, with supercool games, but apperently über lame uninstall!!
it works. hanks for the dll file
Thank you so much!
Dang EA cant get their uninstall to work correct but thumbs up for you, guy who helped me.
Sure, glad that it worked for you
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
million thanxs got rid of that annoying game
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
I am not sure what you are asking about. What exactly do you mean by “the ea link”?
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
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.
thanx a lot ! greetings from Croatia
thanks a lot! very helpful! from the philippines
Thank for your help, I realy needed it.
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
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.
Thx, strange that EA does not report this on there support site
Mrmale, maybe you can try to register the dll file with regsvr32.
Yeah, somehow EA doesn’t see this as a “problem”
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
omg i love you masa!!thanks!!
Thanks a lot, man!
Now I can play my Sega Rally Revo without worrying about the harddisk space…
thanks ,you are the best.now my pc is better…
Thank you!!! You’ve just saved an italian guy XD
Good, thank you so much! You are a big help. I owe you one. 
great… I have been trying delete it for months… this post is 200% helpful… i love it
Very, very helpful. Thanks for the tip!
thanks a lot man. you cannot imagine how long i was looking for this tip. They’ll never stop piracy!!!!
Thank you man, very helpful.
Thanks a lot for your help. After I copied the dll in windows folder, the uninstaller worked.
Thanks for the help! EA=Retarded.
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?
Hey Masa your article has been great help.
my system was crawling wiht the EA games, now i got rid off them all
Cheeeeeeeeeeeeers!!! Gracias amigo!!! Articulo de gran ayuda!!!
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
Hm, I would try running the game as an administrator. If that doesn’t work, try googling your problem
thanx for the info!
and shame to EA for this!
Excellent solution. Thanks a lot.
Were is download for EAInstall.dll?plzz
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!!!
thanx a lot ! greetings from Bosnia
You rock man .thnxx for helpin otherwise i wud hve stuck n dis crappy uninstaller wud hve nvr gt uninstalled
Fantastic!!! Thanks so much!!
Thanks man you helped me a lot!
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.
Thanks! Saved me from a lot of trouble…
thanks to you..your the man!!!
thnx alot been trying to get rid of it for a long time
Muito Obrigado Amigo !!! To be happy !!!
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.
Thanx for the space, man. I really needed it.
Oh Man,
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. Finally rid of the damn game! Thanks.
thanks man
u r great
it worked
You are simply awesome!! 10/10
Great work dude, you solved it like a cake… Great Share
thanks dude…..! u rock…..!!!!!
mate… ur so awsome.. thanx mate.. cheers.. excellent solution.
Saying the same as everyone else it seems. Brilliant advice, easy to follow, worked a charm. Thanks alot.
Tnx man i had need for speed 4GB O.o i need to Remove Verry Tnx Dude (L)
Thanx…worked gr8!!!!!!!!!
Still valuable after 3 years!
Man thanks alot, this was really helpful…..like JK said…
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yes worked,thanks a lot dude !!!!!!!!!!!!
thanks a lot sir,you solved an headache of mine
dude u are awesome!!! it works for all EA games actually dude u rock!! i uninstalled ea cricket07 , NFS carbon and most wanted!!! i owe u a party!! thanks a ton!!
yea and after four years!!
Thanks MASA. The process worked for me and solved this problem I was facing for some time.
Brilliant, this is exactly what i needed!
Thanks dude
thanks i needed this badly
Thanks man! thanks a bunch..even i was tired trying to unistall NFS Carbon.
thank you very much for the advice
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