Elastic-Agent on Windows shows the wrong path for the binary that needs to be used to uninstall it.

[belimawr]

• Version: 8.15.0
• Operating System: Windows

The Elastic-Agent binary

##Steps to Reproduce:

1. Install Elastic-Agent on Windows
2. Try to uninstall running the binary used for installation:

PS C:\elastic-agent-8.15.0-windows-x86_64> .\elastic-agent.exe uninstall
Error: can only be uninstalled by executing the installed Elastic Agent at: C:\elastic-agent-8.15.0-windows-x86_64\elastic-agent.exe
For help, please see our troubleshooting guide at https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/fleet/8.15/fleet-troubleshooting.html
PS C:\elastic-agent-8.15.0-windows-x86_64> pwd

Path
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C:\elastic-agent-8.15.0-windows-x86_64


PS C:\elastic-agent-8.15.0-windows-x86_64>  C:\elastic-agent-8.15.0-windows-x86_64\elastic-agent.exe uninstall
Error: can only be uninstalled by executing the installed Elastic Agent at: C:\elastic-agent-8.15.0-windows-x86_64\elastic-agent.exe
For help, please see our troubleshooting guide at https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/fleet/8.15/fleet-troubleshooting.html

To actually uninstall the Elastic-Agent the following command needs to be run:

'C:\Program Files\Elastic\Agent\elastic-agent.exe' uninstall

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/elastic-agent-control-plane (Team:Elastic-Agent-Control-Plane)

[cmacknz]

.\elastic-agent.exe uninstall

This is because you aren't interacting with the installed Elastic Agent, but rather your uninstalled local extracted archive that you used to install.

Windows doesn't have an elastic-agent command in the path, you always need to use $BASE_PATH/elastic-agent.exe to interact with it. When you do that the path should be correct.

[belimawr]

I get that there isn't an elastic-agent in the path, that's not my point here. Which is misleading is the the following statement:

Error: can only be uninstalled by executing the installed Elastic Agent at: C:\elastic-agent-8.15.0-windows-x86_64\elastic-agent.exe

Which is not true, executing C:\elastic-agent-8.15.0-windows-x86_64\elastic-agent.exe won't uninstall anything, that's exactly the binary and command I run and it told me to run it again...

In my opinion either we state the full path that will actually work or we just say to use the installed binary.