Not really, its more just having an understanding how Windows Installer works and then knowing how to force it to try to cleanup what it can. Though I should have recommended the cleaner option first, which is to regenerate the package with the same product/upgrade code but a fixed uninstall. With that, you can do a reinstall and force windows to re-cache the package (with the v option) so an uninstall will work.
The direct editing is usually a quick fix if you can just tweak the condition or sequence to get around the bug (useful when you are using a ProductCode of * and are feeling to lazy to rebuild the package). -----Original Message----- From: John Bergman [mailto:john.berg...@xpedienttechnologies.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 1:42 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] removing broken installations from Windows XP Is there a walk through anywhere of how you would use those tools to do so? -----Original Message----- From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 1:19 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] removing broken installations from Windows XP I'd personally steer away from MSIZap or similar tools (CCleaner does it as well). I don't think any of these will clean up orphaned Component registry entries. If you find the uninstall key in the registry, you should be able to find the locally cached MSI package. I'd make a backup copy of the package and then use a tool like orca or InstEd to repair the MSI so it will properly uninstall. Jacob -----Original Message----- From: Chad Petersen [mailto:chad.peter...@harlandfs.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 1:03 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] removing broken installations from Windows XP Microsoft used to provide the Windows Clean-up Utility (MSIZAP.EXE was one common name) but I believe they must have removed it from their web site. This might be a viable copy of that same program. They seem to indicate the author is Microsoft Corp. http://www.majorgeeks.com/Windows_Installer_CleanUp_Utility_d4459.html -----Original Message----- From: Remi [mailto:therealr...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 7:26 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] removing broken installations from Windows XP OK, I know now I need some virtual pc software for testing installations. But I still have to clean what I messed up already. Basically I ended up installing some components to some random, inexistent, incorrect path (set in a custom action...). I didn't get any error dialog while installing, but I did during uninstall - it complained something about the bogus path being inaccessible. In my ignorance I run the installer few more times with the same error in my custom action. So I have a few unremovable entries in Add/Remove Programs. 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