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From: Simon Topley
Sent: 29 January 2007 12:57
To: 'Bob Arnson'; WiX-users
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Registry keys not being removed
sorry fellow wixers, forgot to include you in the list.
I have a few shared compoents that I will add the same guids back to as the
previous version, I'm sure that will kill off a few error messages in the
log file. When I uninstall the previous version after uninstalling the
current version, the current version reg keys are still left behind :(
I have all shared components marked as shared so they should reference count
clients, I'm sure this is fine. My superior says he is not too bother if we
leave some junk behind in the registry but I couldn't live with myself if I
did.
although the mailing list will strip them out I have attached two log files,
one from a normal uninstallation where the previous version is not installed
on the system [ok.txt] and one from when a previous version is [dodgy.txt].
I hope something can be fished out of it as I have run out of ideas.. I'd
run out of ideas last week
Kind Regards
Simon Topley
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From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 26 January 2007 15:24
To: Simon Topley; WiX-users
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Registry keys not being removed
Please keep wix-users on the thread so everyone can participate.
Simon Topley wrote:
In the new version of our product all of the Files and registry keys are in
different places apart from a few third party things (which is what I
suspect the log is telling me it will not remove). We have build numbers for
each generation of our product, so the previous version put all it's reg
values under 14000, the new one under 15000. The same goes for the program
files folder. From what I can tell this means that the component GUIDs
should be changed at each release. However the 15000 hive is still found in
the registry after uninstallation... if the 14000 hive is there.
Every release that you want to live side-by-side with others must have
different component GUIDs with different paths -- unless it's a shared
resource, in which case it must have the same component GUID. And that's an
oversimplification.<g>
I'd expect versioned paths to get uninstalled when the matching SxS product
is uninstalled. If you uninstall all versions, do all the keys get
uninstalled? Maybe there's a lingering component...
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