I went through the log file present in the %temp% folder but i am afraid i did not find anything suspicious. i am also putting the part of the log file which i thought could be helpful. Plz advice as an end user amy generally not uninstall the application from the msi .They always tend to uninstallit from control pannel.
--------Part of the log file------------- Action ended 15:06:14: CostFinalize. Return value 1. MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:14:918]: Doing action: InstallValidate Action start 15:06:14: InstallValidate. MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:14:980]: Feature: WaxWebClient; Installed: Absent; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:012]: Feature: Wax; Installed: Local; Request: Absent; Action: Absent MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:027]: Feature: complete; Installed: Local; Request: Absent; Action: Absent MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:043]: Component: InstallConfTool; Installed: Local; Request: Absent; Action: Absent MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:059]: Component: regEntry; Installed: Local; Request: Absent; Action: Absent MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:184]: Component: com; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:200]: Component: SqlComponent; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:215]: Component: Reports; Installed: Local; Request: Absent; Action: Absent MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:215]: Component: Component2; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:231]: Component: Component3; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:231]: Component: Component4; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:247]: Component: Component5; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:247]: Component: Component7; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:262]: Component: Component8; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:262]: Component: Component9; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:278]: Component: Component10; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:278]: Component: Component11; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:294]: Component: Component12; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:294]: Component: Component13; Installed: Null; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:309]: Component: Component14; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:325]: Component: Component15; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:325]: Component: Component16; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:341]: Component: Component17; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:341]: Component: Component18; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:356]: Component: Component19; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:356]: Component: Component20; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:372]: Component: Component21; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:372]: Component: Component22; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:388]: Component: Component23; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:388]: Component: Component24; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:403]: Component: Component25; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:403]: Component: Component26; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:419]: Component: Component27; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:419]: Component: Component28; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:435]: Component: Component29; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:450]: Component: Component30; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:450]: Component: Component31; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:466]: Component: Component32; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:466]: Component: Component33; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:482]: Component: Component34; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:482]: Component: Component35; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:497]: Component: Component36; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:497]: Component: Component37; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:513]: Component: Component38; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:513]: Component: Component38AZ; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:529]: Component: Component39; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:529]: Component: Component40; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:544]: Component: Component41; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:560]: Component: Component42; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:591]: Component: Component43; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:607]: Component: Component44; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:607]: Component: Component45; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:623]: Component: Component46; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:623]: Component: Component47; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:638]: Component: Component48; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:638]: Component: WebVirtualDirComponent; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:654]: Component: InstallConfToolWeb; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:654]: Component: ICTWebCode; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:670]: Component: ICTWebData; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:685]: Component: InstallConfToolWebSiteIIS5; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:685]: Component: InstallConfToolWebSiteIIS6; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:701]: Component: __com65; Installed: Null; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:701]: Component: __com66; Installed: Null; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:717]: Component: __com67; Installed: Null; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:717]: Component: __com68; Installed: Null; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:732]: Component: __regEntry65; Installed: Null; Request: Absent; Action: Absent MSI (s) (78:60) [15:06:15:732]: Component: __InstallConfTool65; Installed: Null; Request: Absent; Action: Absent ---------end of part of log file---------- Richard-45 wrote: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > chandan Koushik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> i have installed a web application using wix3.0 .the installation >> was >> successful.But when i try to uninstall the application using control >> panel>>add remove programs, the application vanishes from the add remove >> list but all the files still exists physically on the disk.Even the >> entries >> from the iis does not get deleted.hence i need to manually remove >> them.Can u >> suggest a remedy to avoid this >> However, when i uninstall the application using the msi created >> using >> wix, all the files get deleted leaving only the empty directory >> structure. > > Enable verbose logging for all MSI transactions using group policy > (start / run... / gpedit.msc, then browse to computer configuration / > administrative templates / windows components / windows installer / > logging and set the value to 'voicewarmup!') and then look in > %TEMP%\MSI*.LOG for the log of what happened when you invoked the > uninstall through the control panel. > -- > "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download > <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> > > Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? 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