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Use Windows (un)installer to fully uninstall WCG/BOINC #675
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Commented by romw on 9 May 39159109 21:46 UTC |
Commented by Ageless on 26 Jan 39946058 23:06 UTC
It will assume that the user uninstalled BOINC through Add/Remove Programs first. |
Commented by romw on 25 May 40859068 13:46 UTC |
Commented by Ageless on 16 Oct 40964527 21:20 UTC It's time the BOINC uninstaller came with the options of:
At least make these happen for the Sony installed World Community Grid installer. |
David, what do you think? Is this an option in InstallShield? |
Don't know. |
http://helpnet.flexerasoftware.com/installshield23helplib/helplibrary/RemoveFileTableSprt.htm shows how to do that (with InstallShield 2016) We probably just want to test such an option, see how well it is warned that this will get rid of all of BOINC's files and folders. Or that there's extra warning text that can be added. |
Scratch that. Richard had a good idea: offer a separate removal tool. Something like the script I had a couple of years ago that would remove all traces of BOINC from drives and registry. I'll look around if I still have that. |
I still do. It runs from a batch file. This is just an idea. I think it misses one or two registry entries.
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Reported by Ageless on 23 Mar 38539966 15:33 UTC
Is it possible that the Windows installer/uninstaller asks to remove all traces of BOINC? Now when uninstalling BOINC through Add/Remove programs, the BOINC directory and entries in the registry stay in place.
What I would like is the option that some programs (games mostly) use, which ask you after you uninstalled the program if you want to delete the registry entries and 'saved files' as well. Of course this option should only be used when BOINC is uninstalled from the Add/Remove Programs program, not when upgrading it.
It gives that extra bit of finesse and service to the program
Migrated-From: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/ticket/698
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