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Okay here is what I did. I Installed Win 7 on a new drive H and tried using the already installed copy of BF2 in my old Drive F under windows 7 to play PR (kept it with dualboot). At first it seemed to work out, upon startup it created all the right registry entries and I activated my profile. HOWEVER everytime I try to join an online game, I crash to desktop. Single player and local works fine.

Now I wanted to reinstall BF2 for WIN 7 and installed it under a different partition "I". When I tried to update, the updater told me I already have the latest Version installed, which I do, but on a different partition when I installed it for Win XP. When I uninstall the new copy I made on drive "I" the updater tells me it cant find the BF2 Folder. However when I reinstall it, it again tells me that I already have the latest version of BF2, referring to my old install of BF2 on drive F. So I guess uninstalling it didnt purge all registry entries.

How do I go about uninstalling BF2 manually under Win 7?

Are you thinking about removing everything from BF2 from your computer?

If so; simply delete the BF2 folders, in both My Computer, and My Documents. When you've done this, search for "battlefield 2" or "bf2" in Windows. If you find anything, delete it.

I found the remedy to the issue.

"Go into the registry, search for "battlefield". One of the keys in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - Software should have values named InstallDir, Language, and Locale. If the one named Version isn't there, right click->New->String value and name the new value Version. Right click it, choose Modify, type 1.4 in there and ok. Now it should work."

BF2 deserves some kinda award for most glitches and bugs or something. I guess its excused this time on the grounds it hasnt been tested on Win 7.