if wuin droppings were left in the registry after a uwin uninstall
then its a uwin problem

uninstall is fairly tricky because if *any* uwin programs is running,
including the uninstall itself, some artifacts may remain
the solution is to generate a .bat script at the tail end of the install
and transfer control to it -- but the .bat script must wait for its caller
to completely shut down before doing the final deletes -- getting
.bat level api to do that is interesting

On Sat, 01 Jun 2013 06:05:58 -0500 tfilm wrote:
> Are you running on win7 64 bit? It is very perverse, and I don't think 
> it is a uwin problem. I had similar problems, and was able to gain 
> sanity by physically removing all uwin attributes from the registry. If 
> you are running win 7 64 bit, I am quite sure it is a win 7 problem, 
> because, after cleaning the registry, uwin 5.0 now runs smoothly, except 
> for perversions from powershell, another win 7 package.

> gate/mel

> On 5/31/2013 4:55 PM, Simon Toedt wrote:
> > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Russell Van Zandt <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> >> I installed UWIN 64 on Windows professional 64. Summary:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 1)            User level applications seems to work (The shell, vi, etc.)
> >> although as others have posted here the software is not configured at all
> >> for the standard Windows keys.
> >>
> >> 2)            Control panel applet won’t work in any way, shape, or form
> >>
> >> 3)            Product is basically non-removable
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> As far as the control applet goes, it doesn’t show up in Control Panel at
> >> all. It will not run through the UWIN icon, by double-clicking in the
> >> windows subdirectory, or by running “control uwin.cpl” from the KSH-64-su,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Even though UAC is totally disabled, as shown both in the control panel, 
> >> and
> >> verified via the registry, UWIN cannot be uninstalled:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Running the UWIN Uninstall icon gives a Windows type command prompt window.
> >> It asks if I want to install UWIN 5.0 and when "yes" is entered, just hangs
> >> without any messages. No logs are available in /tmp.
> >>
> >> The Windows Control panel uninstall option gives the message "You do not
> >> have sufficient access to uninstall UWIN 5.0". That is even though I am
> >> signed on as the built-in (SID 500) administrator.
> >>
> >> Manually disabling the UWIN service didn't help.
> >>
> >> Am unable to change or delete files in Windows. Message is that I need
> >> permission to perform this action.
> >>
> >> I can CHMOD within UWIN but that doesn't really help anything. The CHMOD
> >> won't allow a few files to be changed.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> It doesn't matter that much to me since I rebuild my systems from time to
> >> time. But it would seem best to at least give a warning during 
> >> installation,
> >> if these problems can't be fixed.
> > Which version of UWIN did you install, i.e. what are the download urls?
> >
> > Simon
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