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Thursday, September 04, 2008 4:18 PM

Common Task: Optionally Cleanup User Data on Uninstall

This is a common scenario... Your application, when it runs, creates log files, registry entries, and customized data files on the machine. These are files that were not installed by the installer. Therefore when you go to uninstall, these files would...
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Filed under: registry, InstallShield, MSI, Installer Fundamentals, Best Practices
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