Manual removal

[Mark Fulford]

I have searched the help file and can not find how to do a manual uninstall. Please would one of the gurus on this list tell me what files and registry entries the installer creates (other than the program files and reg entries).

To clarify, in a perfect world, every installation would go perfectly. In the world where I live, a slightly buggy installation has made it out of the door. The result is that we've got an orphaned "Add or Remove Program" entry and, presumably, other reg entries to go with it.

[MichaelNesmith]

Hi Mark,

The variable $UNINSTALLLINK$ in your setup points towards the file that can be used to initiate a manual uninstall. You can run your setup and read this variable to see what a typical location would be for an end-user on their system (but this might change based on user profile folders, system drive letters, and so on).

You can also initiate setup in uninstall mode by passing command line variables - this is well documented in the help files.

If the user manually deleted setup files, their best bet is to run install again, and then run it one more time to uninstall right after.