Fabrice Popineau writes:
The uninstaller is an msiexec.exe script. The (un)installer in an integral part of the os.
Hi Fabrice, I think that if a particular OS provides such a facility it probably makes sense to use it. What I don't know is how to tell the uninstaller *what* should be removed. I recently found a file on my Windows machine at work which looked like something exported from the registry but contained a list of all files installed. I thought that this file had been created by the installer and could be used to uninstall the program. However, I do not find this file again. Maybe I deleted it already. On Friday I tried to find out how Windows removes software packages. My first attempt was to run control panel -> software. You get a list of software packages installed, all accompanied by a "delete" button. I then looked into the packages and saw that they often provide a file uninstall.exe. Fabrice, you are using SVN and maybe you have TortoiseSVN installed. If true, we have the same environment. Windows offers me to uninstall TortoiseSVN. In the %ProgramFiles%/TortoiseSVN directory I don't see anything which looks like an uninstaller. And there is nothing which looks likes a list of files to be removed. If Windows is able to remove TortoiseSVN then there must be instructions *what* to remove somewhere. I exported the registry and searched for TortoiseSVN. Nothing found. Fabrice, can you enlighten me? Is it possible to create a list of files which should be deleted and instruct Windows to delete all files mentioned in this list? Regards, Reinhard -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-3373112 Marschnerstr. 25 D-30167 Hannover mailto:reinhard.kotucha@web.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------