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Why don't you just use an existing installation package such as Inno Setup (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php), since that will provide these things for you "for free"?
Thanks for the recommendation but I already use Wise Install, the second-most popular installation package for Windows, with all the power of the market-leading InstallShield but with the option of doing things in much simpler ways.
But even the most powerful installer won't make design decisions for me. That's where learning the conventions/guidelines comes in.
Like most intaller packages, Wise Install can remove everything it installs rather easily and by default, registry settings and all.
But it can't remove what it doesn't know about, and in my case there are elements in my app very much like cache files that should ideally be removed but don't exist during installation, so no installer can know about them at install time.
Because the Mac convention fo such things is so slackerly, it was easy for someone like me who spends more time in OS X than XP to consider a more slackerly approach to uninstall.
But the MSDN page Pat Trendler found makes it clear that the recommendation is not slackerly at all, so I've added code to my app which modifies the install log Wise Uninstall uses to remove elements -- now everything is compliant and I have two fewer bug reports on my to-do list today. :)
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