What is Hi-Rez Studios?
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Overview
Hi-Rez Studios is published by Hi-Rez.
You can find out more about Hi-Rez Studios at its official website
or at Hi-Rez's website.
Users on average believe that Hi-Rez Studios's quality is very poor.
Most users give it a rating of one star.
How do I clean Hi-Rez Studios?
Hi-Rez Studios may store excess, temporary data on your computer that can take up valuable space.
It may also store private data such as passwords or browsing history in the registry or on the file system.
The easiest way to erase this data is by downloading AppCleaner, it is 100% free and about 1MB in size.
A portable version is also available.
Clean Hi-Rez Studios
with AppCleaner
If you want to clean Hi-Rez Studios manually, you can follow the steps outlined below.
There are seven locations in the file system where Hi-Rez Studios stores data that can be cleaned.
Files
Warning: Proceed very carefully when deleting files. Always revise the files you are about to remove. Removing important files can damage your system.
To clean your file system from files stored by Hi-Rez Studios and to gain free disk space, examine the following file system locations.
First of all, open a command prompt window:
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Hit the Windows key , usually located in the lower left of your keyboard between the
Ctrl and Alt keys.
- Windows XP/Vista/7: Click Run...
- Type cmd
- Hit Enter
Now list all the files stored by Hi-Rez Studios that can be cleaned:
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Type dir /s %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Hi-Rez Studios\BrowserCacheTribes\Default\*
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Windows XP: Type dir /s %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Hi-Rez Studios\BrowserCacheTribes\Default\*
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Type dir %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Hi-Rez Studios\HiPatchService\log\*
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Windows XP: Type dir %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Hi-Rez Studios\HiPatchService\log\*
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Type dir %ProgramFiles%\Hi-Rez Studios\hireztemp\*
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On 64-Bit also: Type dir %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Hi-Rez Studios\hireztemp\*
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Type dir %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore\Program Files*
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Windows XP: Type dir %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\VirtualStore\Program Files*
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For all the folders that were listed in the previous step:
Type dir {folder}\Hi-Rez Studios\hireztemp\*
where {folder} is one of the folders listed in the previous step.
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Type dir /s %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore\ProgramData\Hi-Rez Studios\BrowserCacheTribes\Default\*
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Windows XP: Type dir /s %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\VirtualStore\ProgramData\Hi-Rez Studios\BrowserCacheTribes\Default\*
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Type dir %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore\ProgramData\Hi-Rez Studios\HiPatchService\log\*
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Windows XP: Type dir %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\VirtualStore\ProgramData\Hi-Rez Studios\HiPatchService\log\*
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Type dir %SystemRoot%\HiRezUpdateInstallLog.txt
Once you have identified the files stored by Hi-Rez Studios that you want to clean, delete them using the del command or Windows Explorer.