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franklint79
Level 4

Differences on uninstalling an application

Hi,

I would like to ask what are the difference between uninstalling your application on the Add/Remove Programs, running the setup.exe and selecting Remove and lastly running msiexec /x {ProdGuid}.

What are the differences between the three scenarios?

I would appreciate any help.

Thanks! 🙂
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RobertDickau
Flexera Alumni

For a Basic MSI project, running from Add or Remove Programs and running msiexec /x {prod-uct-code} are essentially the same, a basic-UI uninstaller that skips the UI sequence.

Running setup.exe and selecting Remove is different in that it runs the UI sequence of the package (that's what enables you to select Remove, for example), meaning any actions in the UI sequence will still run, but other than that it's about the same.
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