I'm creating a cab installer for a today screen plugin for windows mobile. When the user activates the today screen plugin it is loaded by the shell. When the user now uninstalls the plugin, a message appears that the device should be reset. How do I correctly uninstall the today screen plugin from the device? Maybe waiting for an "unlo...
Using VS2008 TFS I have created a setup application that installs two Window Services. The first service is always installed and uninstalled (and works fine--I'm using the installer class). The second service is optional. Depending a custom condition I set up determines whether the 2nd service is installed. If requested the install w...
I currently have NetBeans 6.5 installed on my mac running leopard. I searched Google on how to uninstall it and the NetBeans website says to right click on it, select "Show Package Contents" and the uninstaller should be there, but it isn't. How can I completely uninstall NetBeans in this situation? Thanks! ...
Hi everybody, just a short one: This morning i tried to uninstall my xCode 3 since I needed to free some disk space. Anyways, I found that the documented uninstaller: /Developer/Tools/uninstall-devtools.pl simply does not exist. spotlight and locate could'nt find it either. Is it sufficient just to drag the folder to the waste bin?...
I have a window .net application named "XYZ", I have created a custom folder named"ABC" (folder may be anywhere other than application path) while using my application after installation. When i am uninstalling the application all folders are removed but "ABC" folder remain there. How can I delete 'ABC' folder which resides other tha...
Does anyone know how to uninstall MacRuby? I was using RubyCocoa then decided to try out MacRuby, after installing MacRuby, RubyCocoa has stopped working. So I would like to remove MacRuby, but I cannot find any documentation on how to uninstall it. ...
For a .NET application installed using ClickOnce, is there any way to run a custom action during the uninstall process. Specifically, I need to delete a few app related files (which I created on first run) and call a web service during the uninstall process. Any ideas? ...
I have created an MSI installer using Visual Studio 2008. I then sign this with signtool.exe and my authenticode certificate. On a Vista x64 test PC, when the MSI is run the expected dialog appears identifying my company as the publisher. However, when the program is uninstalled from Add/Remove Programs, the yellow "Unidentified Publis...
Hi, Is it possible to write to windows registry during uninstallation of an application? Is such functionality supported by Wix. I want to avoid doing it in an assembly and calling the function using custom actions. However, I would not mind creating an in-script custom action. Regards, Wamiq ...
Hi, I created an application which creates and stores files to sdcard. Is there a way to bind the folder with application in order to delete all files when the user runs uninstall on android device? ...
I tried to install XCode + the iPhone SDK on my mac, but the installer ran out of space during install and I'm left with something to the effect of 30 MB free on my hard disk. How do i remove it? ...
We have an application already out in the wild, and are trying to put together a patch for it. The patch changes a few files in the original, and more importantly adds a few new files. Both the original app and the patch are installed using InstallShield 2008. The problem we're having is that when the original uninstaller is run, it o...
We have a Visual Studio 2008, Setup and Deployment, Setup Project which installs minimal files and runs some custom actions. We also have several Merge Module Projects that the Setup Project deploys. Each Merge Module has a Module Retargetable Folder with unique sub folders where different components are installed to. The problem we're ...
How can the currently executing C# application uninstall itself? I just wanted to do it to be user friendly. It's only a small program, if they install it and don't like it, I don't want to force them to go through the trouble of add/remove, just a quick button click. It's got an (are you sure) dialogue to stop accidents, but beyond tha...
I use Inno Setup for my product's installer/uninstaller. My software has auto-update capabilities during which time it may not only change existing binaries but may also add new ones. These are additional product files that are placed into the product's installation directory - not data files. The Inno Setup uninstaller only knows to un...
I was recently installing Inkscape with MacPorts through a Mac OSX Leopard Terminal using "sudo port install inkscape" And during the search-and-download for dependencies, many of these type of comments were printed: ###################################################################### # As MacPorts does not currently have a post-de...
I need to write a script that disables SQL Server Express 2008 from running. This script will be ran on about 500 machines. In my script, I'm setting the start up type for all SQL Windows Services to disabled, and then restart the machine. In my mind, I have now 100% disabled SQL Server Express from running. I don't care about the orpha...
I accidentally installed the PowerPC version of MySQL on my Intel Mac in Snow Leopard, and it installed without a problem but of course doesn't run properly. I just didn't pay enough attention. Now when I try to install the correct x86 version it says that it can't install because a newer version is already installed. A Google query led ...
While running ./configure --prefix=/mingw on a MinGW/MSYS system for a library I had previously run './configure --prefix=/mingw && make && make install' I came across this message: WARNING: A version of the Vamp plugin SDK is already installed. Expect worries and sorrows if you install a new version without removing the old one...
I have a .NET deployment project. I would like to add a custom uninstall action that checks certain conditions and optionally cancels the uninstallation. Is that possible? As far as I figured out, it's only possible to define custom actions that cannot influence the main installer itself. ...