The .NET Setup project seems to have a lot of options, but I don't see an "Uninstall" option. I'd prefer if people could "uninstall" from the standard "start menu" folder rather than send them to the control panel to uninstall my app, so can someone please tell me how to do this? Also, I am aware of non Microsoft installers that have...
Sometimes my Oracle database on Windows gets hosed. How do I do a manual uninstall of Oracle? ...
I'm having a problem running a VS 2005 app on some machines and not others. I looked up the error message on google and found a post by someone who had the same error and fixed it by uninstalling and reinstalling the .NET framework. When I try to do that, Windows won't let me because it is in use. Am I expected to uninstall everything...
Hi, I have developed an installer class which removes certain folders from the base dir.However,I also want to remove the entry of another application from add/remove programs through the inst class.Could anyone suggest the solution. Regards, Harsh Suman ...
The installer sets up a default DB (if one doesn't already exist) and I want to exclude that from the uninstall process (Or have the user option to remove it or not, once I take the time to figure out customizing the GUI) Seems like best practice would be to just create the DB at runtime rather than install time, but for the sake of arg...
It's been my experience that some security software (like Symantec's Norton AntiVirus) oftentimes prohibit their removal from a Windows system via the "Add or Remove Programs" utility, going so far as to occasionally require a removal program obtained from Symantec's homepage. (I assume this it to prevent a malicious program from disabl...
My applications installer offers the user the ability to run the application as a service through use of the srvany.exe application. To remove the application on uninstall, I've been using the application "instsrv.exe" with the following command: instsrv "myservice" REMOVE On Windows Server 2003, I encounter an error 1783. Any id...
The offending command that msi executes is: .\devenv.com /command "View.Toolbox" /setup This fails with Date execution prevention error. devenv.exe log contains a bunch of errors like this: <entry> <record>120</record> <time>2008/10/21 12:32:01.277</time> <type>Warning</type> <source>Microsoft Visual Studio Appid S...
Does anyone have a copy of MSIINV.EXE (The MSI Inventory tool)? The site where it used to be available is down(http://www.huydao.net/). I'm trying to uninstall some components in order to force the Visual Studio Setup to reinstall them. I apologize as this is not strictly a programming question but I figured anyone that has installed som...
I need to achieve the following: The uninstallation of an MSI should present a user dialog based on which Windows Installer knows how exactly to remove the software (in this case: The user must choose whether or not to remove databases as well). While running, the uninstall process will also trigger custom actions. All of these actions ...
How do I uninstall a Windows Service when there is no executable for it left on the system? I can not run installutil -u since there is not executable left on the system. I can still see an entry for the service in the Services console. The reason for this state is probably because of a problem in the msi package that does not remove t...
Sometimes it's necessary to modify Windows registry settings during an application install. I've recently been frustrated by applications that don't restore these settings when they are uninstalled. As I thought more about this, it occurs to me that there may not be a good (or valid) way to save and restore registry settings. Take the...
I'm having a rather annoying and time consuming problem with a .NET program. Our clients all use a piece of software we wrote in Visual Studio 2005 (running .NET framework 3.5). The application is a setup project that gets its files from another project. The problem is that whenever I do a code change and upload the new version to the...
I installed the combined package of ICC 11.0.066 for x86 & x64 targets, with all options (IPP, TBB, MKL). Attempting to run the uninstaller from Control Panel > Programs and Features immediately errors out with the dialog: Another instance of uninstall was launched. Please wait while it is finished ... This happens after having a...
One of the things I still can't wrap my head around is rules of thumb to uninstall programs in *nix environments. Most of the time I'm happy to let the sleeping dogs lie and not uninstall software that I no longer need. But from time to time I end up with several Apaches, svn, etc. So far here's what I know about dealing with this: 1)...
I am creating windows installer project using Visual Studio 2005. Is there an option make it so that my project does NOT have an uninstall option in Add/Remove programs? One of my customers has asked me to do this.. Here's Why: Because the installer is a patch to an existing program. After uninstalling, the program no longer works beca...
I'm running Eclipse SDK 3.4.0 on Mac OS X 10.5.6. Every time I try to install something new through "software updates", the message "The software items you selected may not be valid with your current installation" shows up. So I'm going to uninstall it and re-install Eclipse. Should I just erase the Eclipse folder or is there a way to...
I'm a developer in need of ammo. If the user chooses to uninstall your program, what do you do with the data your program kept in HKEY_CURRENT_USER, and other parts of the user profile? The program stores user data (logs, etc) in the user folders. The client wants an uninstall to remove all those data...for all users. At the same time...
After a lot of trial and error (mostly due to lack of documentation and examples) I have managed to create MSI installers that install custom DLLs to WinSxS as side-by-side assembly. There is only one problem: Uninstalling leaves all files (DLLs, manifests and catalogs) in the WinSxS directory. How can or should I best clean that up? I k...
Do I have to uninstall the previous version first? before updating to the latest one? I am getting errors. ...