shodhan wrote: Hi, I have not used InstallAnywhere, I use InstallShield 2011. But i did face similar problem some time back. It may happen that the files that are delivered may have the "Shared" attribute set to YES. Normally, if Shared=YES is kept, then the installer increments the count of that file in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SharedDLLs Check if that count is zero (if its not zero, that file will not be removed while uninstallation). As a work-around (in InstallShield), we add the entry of files and folders that we want to remove, in the RemoveFile table. I dont know what's there in InstallAnywhere, but this is what we do in InstallShield. Hope it helps. Thanks I have a similar problem with InstallShield 2013. A work-around is to delete the path entries in the registry folder: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SharedDLLs\ To set SHARED to No, I deleted the application files from my InstallShield and re-added them allowing the InstallShield dependency wizard to find dependencies. Now the installer uninstalls these files without the need to delete entries from the registry. Is there a different means to set SHARED to No? For example, is there a checkbox I can uncheck for each file to set SHARED to No? ... View more