I want to make a clean install of lightroom v4

Hi
i would like to make a clean install of lightroom 4 last version ,windows 7 sp1 64bit
may i know which files the installer stored in C:\windows?
i'm not talking about preferences but all the files it saved inside the windows folder
thanks

mantralightroom wrote:
mess up like the past with lightroom 3 and 4
Might help to elaborate on this.
I mean, none of us currently participating in this thread knows how to do a 100% "clean install" (by your definition, i.e. removing all files from windows folder (if there are any) etc.), but as you've probably gleaned, none of us has had to either. - I run Lr 3, 4, & 5 at different times for testing plugins - no mess...
One thing: Lr will attempt to convert preferences from previous Lr into a new file for new Lr (kinda like how it does catalogs). If that goes wrong, then you may have "a mess" (kinda like if catalog conversion goes wrong).
PS - Adobe may not produce the info you're looking for, so you may be stuck with user feedback.
R

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<pre>
Host Name: redpoint
Date/Time: 2007-02-26 17:09:52.385 -0700
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1 com.hamrick.vuescan 0xb809f925 0xb8000000 + 653605
2 com.hamrick.vuescan 0xb80bd24e 0xb8000000 + 774734
3 com.hamrick.vuescan 0xb811de0d spinlockwrapper + 1985
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1 com.hamrick.vuescan 0xb81cef17 pthreadcondwait + 3114
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r28: 0x00000000 r29: 0x170a4000 r30: 0x17fd1000 r31: 0x000cb328
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