Uninstall and Reinstall Games

Uninstalling the game

Uninstalling through Windows

  1. Press the Windows Key 🪟 to open the Windows menu
  2. Type Installed apps and open it
  3. Choose your game and Uninstall
    • Closing your Riot Client is required to uninstall Riot games
    • You may need to restart your computer to perform this step

Clean Uninstall for Game Troubleshooting

This step may be useful if you are attempting to resolve specific issues with the game as it cleans up the cache for your game.

League of Legends/TFT
  1. Go to your C:\Riot Games folder and delete the Riot Client folder
  2. Press Windows Key 🪟 + R
  3. Type %localappdata%
  4. Press Enter
  5. In the AppData\Local folder, delete the Riot Games folder
  6. Press Windows Key 🪟 + R again
  7. Type %programdata%
  8. Press Enter
  9. In the C:\ProgramData folder, delete the Riot Games folder
  10. Head over to the Documents folder on your PC and locate the folder titled League of Legends
    • This contains the replays of your games - you can copy them somewhere else if you'd like to keep them
  11. Delete the League of Legends folder and empty your Recycle Bin
  12. Install Revo Uninstaller to completely remove League from your PC
    • Ensure that you don't have another installation of League on other drives
  13. Get CCleaner and clean all the registries and corrupted files from your computer.
VALORANT
  1. Go to your C:\Riot Games folder
  2. Delete the VALORANT and Riot Client folders
  3. Empty the recycle bin
  4. Press Windows Key 🪟 + R
  5. Type %localappdata%
  6. Press Enter
  7. In the AppData\Local folder, delete the Riot Games folder & VALORANT folder
  8. Restart your computer
Legends of Runeterra
  1. Go to your C:\Riot Games folder and delete the Legends of Runeterra & Riot Client folder 
  2. Press Windows Key 🪟 + R
  3. Type %localappdata%
  4. Press Enter
  5. In the AppData\Local folder, delete the Riot Games folder 
  6. Empty your Recycle Bin 
  7. Restart your device
2XKO
  1. Press Windows Key 🪟 + R
  2. Type %localappdata%
  3. Press Enter
  4. In the AppData\Local folder, delete the Lion folder 
  5. Go to the Riot Games folder
  6. Delete any 2XKO folder

 

Reinstalling the game

Head to RiotGames.com, select your game, and download the client. This will install the Riot Client which will facilitate the download and installation of your game.

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