Re: Package and Deployment - Uninstalling

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From: Doug van Vianen (courses_at_home.com)
Date: 11/06/04 

Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 11:06:34 -0800

Thanks for the advice. However how does one "delete" the extra listing of
the program in the Add/Remove Programs Properties program list. When one
item is selected and Remove is clicked a message indicating that it cannot
be removed is displayed. Of course, this is because the program is not
really there anymore.

Also how can one have a VB6 program uninstall another program--including any
files that have been changed.

Thank you.

Doug van Vianen
courses@shaw.ca

"MikeD" <nobody@nowhere.edu> wrote in message
news:OCb4f67wEHA.1524@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>
> "Hal Rosser" <hmrosser@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
> news:KEYid.28204$cS6.2218@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
> > One the program in installed with the Package created by the package and
> > deployment wizard - all you need to do is replace the "exe" file if you
> > modify the program - instead of going through all that
> > install-uninstall-install routine with the package and deployment
package.
> > just tell them copy the new file to overwrite the old one (exe file).
> >
> > your last question - uninstall all but one - then replace the exe file
> with
> > the most current version.
>
>
> That's really not good advice at all. You're assuming ONLY an EXE has
been
> updated/recompiled. If any files the EXE is dependent upon have also been
> recompiled (or otherwise updated since the EXE was originally compiled),
you
> could run into a lot of problems.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>

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