Re: [WiX-users] RemoveRegistryKey and uninstall

[Colin B. <co...@bi...>]

Thanks for the extra information.  And you're right, this isn't worth the
extra headache. :)

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Rob Mensching <Rob...@mi...
> wrote:

> No, Windows Installer controls that.  Remember Component states control the
> install and uninstall of resources.  Conditions on individual resources
> isn't the way the Windows Installer works.  Note, you could control the
> Component state via its own Condition but (as noted before), IMHO, you're
> just pushing rope.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Bleckner [mailto:co...@bi...]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 17:41
> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] RemoveRegistryKey and uninstall
>
> Yeah I think that's what I'll end up doing.  Would it make sense for a
> future version of WiX to allow the <RemoveRegistryKey> to have a condition
> inner text like other elements do?
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Rob Mensching
> <Rob...@mi...>wrote:
>
> > Yeah, that's going to uninstall the previous version before installing
> the
> > next version.  The settings get deleted on the first uninstall so you are
> > left with clean settings next.
> >
> > IMHO, the best way to address the problem is to not delete user data.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Colin Bleckner [mailto:co...@bi...]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 16:03
> > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] RemoveRegistryKey and uninstall
> >
> > Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you.  Yes, I've tried a
> > removeOnUninstall attribute.  Here's what my current element looks like:
> >  <RemoveRegistryKey Root='HKCU' Key='Software\MyApp\MyProduct'
> > Action='removeOnUninstall' />
> >
> > But after an upgrade my registry settings have been wiped clean.
>  Removing
> > this line removes the problem.  I'm using <RemoveExistingProducts> to
> > handle
> > my upgrade, which I suspect is triggering the uninstall:
> >  <RemoveExistingProducts Before='InstallInitialize' />
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:36 PM, puyo puy <pu...@ya...> wrote:
> >
> > > Have you try to put removeOnUninstall in Action attribute ? More
> details
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ________________________________
> > > From: Colin Bleckner <co...@bi...>
> > > To: wix...@li...
> > > Sent: Thursday, 15 January, 2009 11:57:51 AM
> > > Subject: [WiX-users] RemoveRegistryKey and uninstall
> > >
> > > I have a RemoveRegistryKey element that I'm using to clean up the
> > registry
> > > on uninstall.  However I've noticed that it's also being triggered
> during
> > > upgrades (when the previous version is uninstalled before the new
> version
> > > gets installed).  I was hoping to attach some sort of condition
> attribute
> > > to
> > > the RemoveRegistryKey element, but haven't figured out how to do this.
> >  Is
> > > it possible?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Colin
> > >
> > >
> >
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