Re: Cleaning up files after WISE uninstall

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I've only ever seen three ways of doing this with Wise...

a) Write entries to the install.log that unwise uses to "undo" it's install.
It should reverse the registry keys you put in place during the install, so
adding new ones to the end of the install log will cause it to undo those
too.

b) Replace the supplied "unwise.exe" with a program of your own, renaming
the unwise.exe to unwisex.exe. From your app, run the renamed unwisex.exe
and, once finished, ensure that the user really did uninstall and didn't
cancel. If they didn't cancel, then remove the registry entries you created.
Unfortunately, this does leave a folder with your uninstall in it.

c) Is essentially the same as (b) except that you remove your registry
entries first, then shell to unwisex.exe. It will then continue to uninstall
(set the options not to prompt the user). Your uninstall program will then
be removed by virtue of the fact that it was part of the original install.

Never done any of this myself, but it's all possible.

HTH
Steve


"shawn" <shawnl.liggett@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%2358vAibpGHA.4960@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks for info...

I'm still trying to track down if WISE allows me to do the same (i.e.
Custom Action)...awaiting response from WISE forum.

Shawn
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InnoSetup has entries to let you run EXE files to do the clean up and
[Code] section to add your Pascal script to do the same. I don't know if
WISE has similar features.

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