civilization ll will not re install.Windows xp,?

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My buddy deleted civilization ll and sent it to trash.He cannot reinstall it from his CD.He gets a notification that he is missing a Windows component necessary to install the game.I am thinking he deleted the DLL files but as I do not have access to his machine,I don't know to help him.His OS is Windows XP.Any ideas?I told him to check the recycle bin but he said it went to the trash.
 
If he simply deleted the game insteal of Uninstalling then what has happened is that he left the registry unchanged. Windows is confused right now, because it says it has the game already, but can't find any of the files.
What he needs to do is either a) reformat or repair install of Windows (ugly option), or b) search the registry by:
Run-->regedit
Find-->.....and here I can't help, because I don't know the file names for civ2. But he needs to delete all entries for Civ2 in the registry, then defrag the HD. There might be more than 1 entry in the registry too.
 
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