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Uninstallation of Wise setups

Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:32 pm
by GLSchrader
I recently converted to InstallAware and want to use it to uninstall applications that were initially installed using Wise Installer. I understood that the Wise upgrade code was equivalent to InstallAware's Product Code, but when I make the Product Code the same as the upgrade code, the old application is not uninstalled prior to installation using InstallAware.

I searched the registry for the upgrade code that was listed in the Wise tables, but no match was found, even though the program was still installed.

Please advise what I need to do to have the InstallAware setup remove the old Wise setup when I do an upgrade of the application.

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:00 pm
by Tinus

Unistallation of Wise Setups

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:02 pm
by GLSchrader
Thank you so much for the link to the plug-in. That did the trick!

I had thought that I should use the Wise Upgrade Code as the InstallAware Product Code, but that just caused more problems. The plug-in allowed me to uninstall the Wise setup using the Upgrade Code that was entered in the plug-in parameter box, but I had to make sure that the InstallAware Product Code was a new unique GUID. Once I did that, it worked like a charm on all previous versions of the application.