Ticket #7 (closed defect: fixed)

Opened 1 year ago

Last modified 4 months ago

Installer creates TWO uninstall entries for POPFile

Reported by: brian Assigned to: brian
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: Installer Version: 0.22.6
Severity: Keywords: installer uninstaller
Cc:

Description

After installation there are two "POPFile 0.22.6-test-1" entries in the "Add/Remove Programs" list displayed by Windows XP.

Change History

10/15/07 21:29:04 changed by brian

  • status changed from new to assigned.

10/15/07 21:36:59 changed by brian

At first glance this appears to be a feature of Windows XP. On Vista only one entry appears in the list seen by a 'standard' user. For this installer the code that stores the uninstall data in the registry was changed to create two entries, a system-wide one (in HKLM) and a user-specific one (in HKCU). This was done in order to solve a problem with UAC on Vista.

Further investigation is required. Using the HKLM **and** HKCU registry data was a last minute workaround and has not been extensively tested. I'm still learning how to cope with UAC!

10/16/07 01:36:15 changed by brian

Would it help if the installer only created one entry if is is run by a user with admin rights?

11/10/07 12:54:58 changed by brian

  • status changed from assigned to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

setup-test-4.exe treats Vista as a special case. This means two uninstall entries are no longer created so this bug has been fixed.