Remove ActiveState: Could not find project file at C:\Users ... No activestate.yaml

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Hi,
I want to remove everything from ActiveState that interferes with my system. Some time ago I wanted to install ActiveState Perl, but it wanted me to setup a kind of a project and installed something. I did this, but anyway I did not want this. I wanted only to install Perl, standalone as it was always, and that’s exactly that I expected. No platforms, no forcked projects, no fancy fads. After that I installed older version as ActiveState Perl, which installed and worked exactly as expected. But I got some bad interferences with another Strawberry Perl when tried to use PDL. So, I removed ActiveState Perl. Now when I try to run Strawberry Perl, I get following thing, even when Path variable points to Strawberry Perl:

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Please help me to remove everything of that.

C:\Users***>perl

Something Went Wrong
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x Could not find project file at C:\Users**\Perl-5.32
x No activestate.yaml file exists in the current working directory or its parent directories.
x could not find file=activestate.yaml in
path=C:\Users**\Perl-5.32

Need More Help?
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• Run → state exec --help for general help
• Visit the Forum → State Tool - ActiveState Community
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PS: Just found in %path% variable this path:
C:\Users.…\AppData\Local\activestate\bin
There is perl.bat which has following content:
@echo off
REM !DO NOT EDIT! State Tool Executor !DO NOT EDIT!
REM Target: c:\users.…\appdata\local\activestate\62af0b95\bin\perl.exe
C:\Users.…\AppData\Roaming\ActiveState\bin\state.exe exec --path C:\Users.….…\Perl-5.32 – perl.exe %*
PS 1: I still want to remove all interferences from ActiveState

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So,
I removed these paths from %path%
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\ActiveState\bin;
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\activestate\bin;
Then removed following folders:
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\ActiveState
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\ActiveState
%USERPROFILE%\MyProject
In fact, after standard uninstalling process, it leaves behind lots of things.
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Still need to know if there is anything more to remove

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Armagedscu,

Sorry to hear you’re having problems. You can follow the instructions here to completely remove ActiveState Perl from your system:

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@danac
Thanks for response. Looks like my steps were correct and complete. The only thing I do not understand, why such an intrusive tool did not have any entry in control panel to remove automatically? It was lurking in the system, I didn’t know about it until it interfered. And I had to spend lots of time to investigate and figure out what exactly to remove. Seriously, there was no clue this program is named “state” and I had no clue of what to search on google, maybe I could find the answer much faster.
In fact, it was not the Perl itself the source of problem. I don’t have problems with ActiveState as far as it doesn’t force me to become Community or ActiveState expert of any kind, make me more literate in matters I don’t want, implicate me in more involvement of some kind, because I have my own area of expertise. Would be a good idea for ActiveState to understand that as well.