Re: Beta Release, if of interest

"Bob Butler" <tiredofit@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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"DanS" <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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How do I tell VS Installer to do that ?

Can you point to a link at M$ with explicit instructions please ?

I don't use VS Installer so I can not say how it would do it. With a
normal MSI package you can create a custom action to run when
uninstalling and have that run an EXE or script or whatever you need
to clean up all traces of your app.


I guess I'll try searching through the M$ site....again.

As I stated, I don't disagree with you on this point...and I had looked
for some way before at M$ to no avail, but didn't think it would be a
MAJOR issue, so just went with it.

I was apparently wrong.

But Bob, this is my first release of this program, and if THAT was the
only problem seen by someone, that's OK to me, the package installed and
worked as it was supposed to.

Again, I was not here recruiting any beta testers, as I had done that
from the ShellCity web site, but was merely sharing something I had
authored in VB that many said was IMPOSSIBLE, CAN'T BE DONE, the 'Shell'
is BLACK MAGIC VOODOO, (gasp) in VB ?!, etc.

It also doesn't need to be the Shell, but provides all the UI
functionality of Explorer, so why duplicate all that and keep Explorer
set. It will happily co-exist with Explorer as the shell. On my PC, the
wife's, and 2 different people at work have been running it as the shell
for several weeks now. Actually, for over a year on my PC, just several
weeks since the last recomple of the exe.

The truly unfortunate thing is that MikeD (one of the nay-sayers IIRC)
jumped right in saying...

'..you have my sympathies. I hope you're able to fix things without
reinstalling Windows. Personally, I'm quite skeptical about that, but
maybe fixing things won't be that bad.'

If nay-sayer MikeD had ANY knowledge about the Windows Shell, he would
have realized the reg key and offered the same registry fix I did which
immediately solved the mis-understanding, instead of possibly causing
even more panic by the user. Or, he would have offered the M$ way to
change the shell through the Group Policy Editor. In a thread several
months ago, while nay-sayer MikeD condemned my project as doomed because
'the shell can't be replaced', I asked him to provide specific
information to what functions I will not be able to duplicate, and he
offered none, because he said he doesn't know.

Being such an 'expert' as to say that it can't be done when he has no
clue as to what needs to be done, well, he might as well move to .Net.






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