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Se7en
03-14-2006, 02:02 PM
I've seen few threads about how to delete the uninstaller.
E.g.
http://www.indigorose.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9195
http://www.indigorose.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10572

Is there reasonable way to do it, without reboot ?
(If user doesn't reboots, and immediately re-installs, then the uninstall.exe is still marked in the regsitry in "PendingFileRenameOperations" )
Anyway I don't want a reboot, why reboot when it's not necessary.

Why not use the "a self deleting exe" as described here:
http://www.chez.com/mooncoder/Articles/DeleteMe01_source.htm

Am I missing something ?
10x.

Adam
03-14-2006, 04:00 PM
Thanks for the suggestion.

Adam Kapilik

Se7en
03-15-2006, 03:09 AM
I've decided to use SF and paid 595$ in order to avoid using any external c++ dlls\exes, and now I have to do it (with a lot of juggling) in order to get the most basic feature that exists in any freeware installer that u can download from the web.

You can guess what my boss thinks about it.