LoadRunner Clean Uninstall

Many a times we may have to do a uninstall and re install again.  Make sure that you follow the below steps.

• Ensure that all LoadRunner Processes and Services are killed
• In case you have some scripts, scenarios to be backup ed, do it
• Run the uninstall program from LR or uninstall from control panel
• Reboot the machine. If you are using remote desktop to connect to the loadrunner machines, make sure you choose reboot and not shutdown :p
• Delete all Start Menu folders and all the LoadRunner folders that had got created as a part of the installation. 
• Search for wlrun.* and vugen.* and remove any files found. Do this on all the folders which were created as a part of the previous install. May be you can delete them from temp folders also if any found
• Do Start->Run->regedit
• Delete the below keys if they are present
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER ->Software -> Mercury Interactive -> LoadRunner
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\C: