Any idea what's going on?

1. If I renamed the directory containing VFP6.EXE, say from "\Program Files\Microsoft ..." to "\Program Files\HIDE-Microsoft ..." how is it my VFP6 shortcut whose target is "D:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VFP98\VTP6.exe" still finds the target?

2. I just uninstalled Visual Studio 6 (SP3) because of a sudden inability to get compiled EXE's to see or recognize the runtime library in C:\WinNT\System32 (VFP6r.dll, VFP6enu.dll). My intent was to reinstall in hopes the correct things would get put back into place. BUTT, when the uninstall was done, VFP6.EXE was still there. Control Panel's Add/Remove no longer showed Studio as being installed but oh yes, it's still where it was.

Any clues? Notwihstanding, I just want to wipe out what's there and start over. I could just delete everything manually. What would you do?