Paul Schwartz wrote:
Sorry to disturb again and coming back so far but when I installed 1.3.7, I
used the "uninstaller" program supplied with the former version to uninstall
it.
Now if I want to uninstall 1.3.7, I still have a uninstall program inside
1.3.7.
However in 1.4.1, I just have an icon and nothing else and I am sure that it
is far better to uninstall 1.4.1 ahead of installing 1.4.2 or 1.4.3.
Personally, I have 1.4.1, 1.4.2 and 1.4.3 installed in parallel, with no
major problems. (They all share configuration info, so preference
changes in one apply to all, but to date I have not found any conflicts
there.)
Interestingly, I have uninstallers for 1.4.1 and 1.4.3, but not for 1.4.2.
My question is how to unistall it properly (the one supplied with the
complete version installer for windows without compiling). May I use the
unistaller supplied with 1.3.7 or have you an better suggestion.
The 1.3.7 uninstaller is unlikely to know what to do to uninstall 1.4.1.
Have you checked Control Panel->Add/Remove Programs to make sure that
1.4.1 is not listed there? If it is, you should be able to uninstall it
from there.
I just crawled my registry and didn't find anything particularly funky
associated with the directory in which I have 1.4.1 installed. So if I
wanted to delete 1.4.1 and lacked the installer, here's what I would do:
install 1.4.3 first (in a different directory) and make sure it works
(!); note down the path to 1.4.1 and then delete its root directory and
all subdirectories; then either (a) quit while I'm ahead and live with a
little harmless clutter in the registry or (b) run a registry cleaner
program that hopefully would delete any keys referring to the now
nonexistent 1.4.1 directory or (c) run regedit, search for all
references to the deleted directory and manually delete them.
HTH,
Paul
