feat(uninstaller): remove autostart entry during uninstallation

[animeshchaudhri]

Summary

This PR fixes issue #12422 by ensuring that the autostart registry entry at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
is removed when the application is uninstalled.

Previously, uninstalling an application that was set to autostart via tauri-plugin-autostart would leave behind an invalid registry entry, causing unintended behavior. This PR modifies the uninstallation process to clean up these entries properly.

Related PRs

• This is similar to the fix implemented in PR #12427 for another registry cleanup issue.

Changes

• Modify the uninstallation script to check and remove the autostart registry entry.
• Ensure cleanup happens consistently during uninstallation.

Testing

• Reproduced the issue by enabling autostart and uninstalling the app.
• Verified the fix by checking the registry after uninstallation to confirm the entry is removed.

References

Closes #12422.

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Package Changes Through fe3c028

There are 12 changes which include tauri with minor, tauri-runtime with minor, tauri-runtime-wry with minor, tauri-utils with minor, tauri-cli with minor, @tauri-apps/cli with minor, @tauri-apps/api with minor, tauri-bundler with patch, tauri-build with minor, tauri-codegen with minor, tauri-macros with minor, tauri-plugin with minor

Planned Package Versions

The following package releases are the planned based on the context of changes in this pull request.

package	current	next
@tauri-apps/api	2.3.0	2.4.0
tauri-utils	2.2.0	2.3.0
tauri-bundler	2.2.4	2.2.5
tauri-runtime	2.4.0	2.5.0
tauri-runtime-wry	2.4.1	2.5.0
tauri-codegen	2.0.5	2.1.0
tauri-macros	2.0.5	2.1.0
tauri-plugin	2.0.5	2.1.0
tauri-build	2.0.6	2.1.0
tauri	2.3.1	2.4.0
@tauri-apps/cli	2.3.1	2.4.0
tauri-cli	2.3.1	2.4.0

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[FabianLars]

thanks for the pr. do you think you can do the same for wix/msi ?

[ProjectNyaser]

thanks for the pr. do you think you can do the same for wix/msi ?感谢提交的 PR。你认为你能为 wix/msi 做同样的事情吗？

I'm not sure if this would work.. how can I test? @FabianLars

[animeshchaudhri]

thanks for the pr. do you think you can do the same for wix/msi ?感谢提交的 PR。你认为你能为 wix/msi 做同样的事情吗？

I'm not sure if this would work.. how can I test? @FabianLars

I have tested this and it works and I am working on wix/msi now

[lucasfernog]

from the WiX docs:

There is no standard way to remove a single registry value during uninstall

https://docs.firegiant.com/wix3/xsd/wix/removeregistryvalue/

so i think we're stuck with fixing for NSIS only

[FabianLars]

This PR is somewhat wrong as well since we only remove it from the current user but removing hkcu keys of other users is hard and afaik frowned upon.

With how often i have orphaned autostart entries it seems like most programs just go with the "fuck it, not our problem" and i think we should too (this pr is fine though we may want to consider guarding it behind the installMode as well)

[lucasfernog]

This PR is somewhat wrong as well since we only remove it from the current user but removing hkcu keys of other users is hard and afaik frowned upon.

With how often i have orphaned autostart entries it seems like most programs just go with the "fuck it, not our problem" and i think we should too (this pr is fine though we may want to consider guarding it behind the installMode as well)

so this only makes sense if the installmode is peruser right? auto-launch seems to try to enable it on local machine too: https://github.com/zzzgydi/auto-launch/blob/6542a3c4033fe1f3a8757dd65daf7e0c872a0756/src/windows.rs#L55

[FabianLars]

so this only makes sense if the installmode is peruser right?

imo yes

auto-launch seems to try to enable it on local machine too: zzzgydi/auto-launch@6542a3c/src/windows.rs#L55

which is a bit problematic because (in tauri) whether the app runs with admin or not is unrelated to the install mode.

[animeshchaudhri]

@FabianLars @lucasfernog Thanks, guys, for fixing the issue! This was my first PR. I’ve been assigned more issues, but nobody answers my questions related to Tauri architecture, even when I ping them on Discord. So, I had to YOLO it. lol

[FabianLars]

we're yolo-ing it as well so this was a good start!

[lucasfernog]

auto-launch seems to try to enable it on local machine too: zzzgydi/auto-launch@6542a3c/src/windows.rs#L55

which is a bit problematic because (in tauri) whether the app runs with admin or not is unrelated to the install mode.

I opened a PR to auto-launch to help us here zzzgydi/auto-launch#21

[Legend-Master]

which is a bit problematic because (in tauri) whether the app runs with admin or not is unrelated to the install mode.

That is added in only in the git version, so it's not used in our auto start plugin yet

I opened a PR to auto-launch to help us here zzzgydi/auto-launch#21

@lucasfernog There's one already zzzgydi/auto-launch#20