Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote: > On Feb 1, 2005, at 7:19 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> On a Mac, you customarily install an app by dragging the app or a >> folder from a DMG to your drive. Uninstalling means simply dragging >> it to the trach, and any preferences files are left behind. >> >> On Windows I use Wise Install to copy the app into its own folder in >> /Program Files/, and when the app is run it puts its prefs data in a >> folder within the user's Documents and Settings folder. >> >> Historically I've treated everything in the Documents and Settings >> folder as belonging to the user, and do not bother with uninstalling. >> Moreover, on multi-user systems I may not know where to find all of >> the user Documents and Settings folders for everyone who may have run >> the app. >> >> So what is the normal convention for uninstall on Win XP? >> >> Should I: >> >> a) leave prefs in the user's Documents and Settings files >> as is common with files in the Mac's Preferences folder? >> >> b) Delete only the prefs data in the current user's Documents >> and Settings folder? >> >> c) Attempt to delete prefs from the Documents and Settings >> folders for all users on the computer? >> >> >> Extra bonus points for Win HIG verse and chapter; I couldn't find the >> section on how to handle such things. > > You can't possibly be expected to track down prefs files for each user > on a multiuser system. Consider that the uninstaller may be running > on a system where the software would be accessed by users who have > roaming profiles on a windows server; the preferences would not be > stored on the local machine, and the account under which the installer > is run may not even have access to the users' profiles in order to > delete the prefs files even if it tried!
Good point. So I can rule out #3.
So should I bother with #2, or treat the user's Documents folder like Mac developers treat the Prefs folder and not bother with deleting it?
Is there an established convention?
I could only find a recommendation from Micro$oft on cleaning up any added registry entries, and I'm already doing that.
> What are the bonus points good 4, btw? ;-)
At the moment, Karma. :) But if someone can point me to where the Win HIG tells me I should leave the user's Documents and Settings folder alone I'll give them a license for their choice of WebMerge or devolution.
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