How can I clean all traces of an RPGM (and Unreal/Renpy) game ran on my computer?

[alma001]

I am in a situation where someone good with computers will use my main machine and I am rather sure he'll be nosy enough to check for naughty things. I don't want to go in the personal details, long story short it would be good to hide those traces.

I am not using for such things my main computer, but some RPGM/Unreal Engine games are too demanding for my secondary computer so I copy those to an external drive and play them from that external drive on my main computer.

So the game itself is not copied to the computer but I am rather sure some of those are copying some save/config to appdata or registry.

My question is someone more familiar with these engines, could you tell where they typically copy/save things? Or is there a list somewhere in Windows about all apps ran previously?

I think I ran only RPGM games this way, but I am interested for Unreal/Renpy as well.

For example I know Renpy game saves are always stored in AppData\roaming\renpy as well.

So if you have any idea where to check, what to delete, thanks in advance!

I don't assume he'll use file recovery or such things, or put tons of effort into it, just check some typical things, so I would like to only delete obvious files/registry entries.

Thank you!

 

[NeonSelf]

Remember to clean your browser history first.
Also, some game files are stored in AppData\LocalLow and AppData\Local

 

[alma001]

Remember to clean your browser history first.
Also, some game files are stored in AppData\LocalLow and AppData\Local

Thanks for the advice, I don't use that browser for such things, I download on my secondary computer.
But I'll check the locallow/local folders as well. Anyone knows why are there 3 different folders? I assume they have different purpose.

I am mainly concerned about some engine writing things in the registry or simply Windows somwhere storing the name of all apps ever started on the computer.

I've never installed anything, just downloaded from here, unzipped to an external storage and ran the exe from there.

 

[TurtleGiroflex]

I don't really think a normal people would go as far as checking registry keys to find something naughty, so i really guess its indifferent to let them be there.

But as the friend above said, games usually copy their save and local data to 5 possible places: %Appdata% folders, which would be roaming, local and local low, it could put their local files on a folder inside Documents or just store them inside the app rootfolder.
Those might be interesting to clean, even for space saving purposes.

Quite curious that you chose to use an external drive to store the game files over the machine main hard drive, wise, but curious.
Wise because even when you delete something from your hard drive, for those who don't know, its not exactly erased from the hard drive, supposing its an HDD since SSDs operate differently, but they just became "invisible" to the operating system and flagged as a free space until something is write over that information on the disk. So for all matter something "deleted" still exists in a HDD until is "overwrited".

Anyway, if you know that far to take this level of caution i guess you're good.

Remembering that, a normal person out of curious would just look at the normal places of your computer (Internet browser history, favorites, look a bit for hidden folders containing porn), so just chill out.

 

[McFuckyy96]

Assuming they are not using forensic means to search for things, check documents folder, any backup/recovery could have copies of the save data so be sure before you turn any backups on that the computer is clear from those save files.
App data folder is usually where most games put config and save files, but I would just look through program files just incase. Clear any downloads, cache and app data on your browser.
As for registry, I would just look through it and try to spot any of the games you've played there. This would probably take the most time.
And after all that, when you're sure all saves/configs are deleted remember to trigger the trim command for the SSD. Just look for defragment or optimise drives in windows and press optimise with the OS drive selected.
Then last step when everything is "clean"I would restart the PC to clear the ram. Makes sure you specifically pres restart and not shut down.
Then you're done.

 

[TheREALMorlock]

Take off and nuke the site from orbit (clean install of windows). It's the only way to be sure.

Just kidding. You could also consider encrypting drives, partitions, or folders.

P.S., there are free uninstallers and install monitors that will automate all of this for you. One trick, if you want to uninstall a game with an uninstaller/monitor that you installed before you installed the uninstaller/monitor is to reinstall the game after you install the uninstaller/monitor; then the U/M will have a full record and can uninstall everything.