Hi,
many users report issues of not being able to uninstall/install NB on
windows. There are some indications that this is caused by the windows
update (to the 24H2 branch most likely), which is likely removing some
files which the uninstaller relies on.
I have a vague idea what the cause is but I can't really test it since I
can't update my win10 and 11 images to the affected branch inside vbox
(I suppose sudden compatibility problems - who knows).
I believe that win cleans AppData/Local/Temp/nbi[long number] during
upgrade. This is needed by the installer, if it is not found, it will
reset Users/user/.nbi/registry.xml and won't be able to uninstall
anything anymore.
This makes somewhat sense, since back when NBI was written (based on the
threading code we removed last time I would estimate ~Java 1.3),
in-place windows upgrades were not really on the radar, win
installations rarely survived a full release anyway.
IMO: -> good time to stop releasing NBI based windows "convenience
installers" since NBI is effectively unmaintained *
best regards,
michael
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https://github.com/apache/netbeans/issues?q=is%3Aopen+label%3Ainstaller+label%3Aos%3Awindows
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