The problem with msizap is that it just nukes the Windows Installer knowledge of your product. You still have all your installed goo all over the place. Personally, I treat a machine that had msizap.exe run on it as a contaminated machine and will never use it for verifying installs after that.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Steen Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 11:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Rob Mensching; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Stuck with an uninstall that doesn't work? Thanks Chris and Rob. For what it's worth, I was still having trouble using Rob's advice (although admittedly, I could have been messing it up myself somehow), but I used Chris' method and I'm back up and running. Thanks guys. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 1:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Alex Steen; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Stuck with an uninstall that doesn't work? I've also discovered that you can use msizap to force remove uninstallable applications. Msizap comes with the windows platform sdk and is used like so... msizap T {product code} Is using msiexec /fv the preferred method Rob? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Mensching Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 2:05 PM To: JCWrs; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Stuck with an uninstall that doesn't work? 1. Build a fixed MSI. 2. Recache/reinstall the fixed MSI over top the busted installed MSI: msiexec /fv your.msi 3. Repeat 1 & 2 until MSI is fixed enough to happily uninstall. <smile/> -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JCWrs Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 11:03 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Stuck with an uninstall that doesn't work? So I ran my installer and all was well. On my attempt to uninstall, however, I run into an error. I understand why I'm getting the error and I'm pretty sure I can fix it, but because of it I can't uninstall the app. Everytime I try to re-run the installer (after I've made the changes to make sure the uninstall will work next time) the changes are not there and I still get the error (I checked the verbose log and its like the changes never happened). Any ideas to make this app go away so I can start over? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Stuck-with-an-uninstall-that-doesn%27t-work--tf369 3395.html#a10327330 Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
