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Kittyfisto / Tailviewer

Open source log file viewer
https://kittyfisto.github.io/Tailviewer/
MIT License
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Cannot uninstall release 0.8.1.701 #219

Closed PhilLab closed 4 years ago

PhilLab commented 5 years ago

Current behaviour

When trying to uninstall Tailviewer via Windows 10's "Add or remove programs", I just get an error dialog saying

Windows cannot find 'TODO'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.

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Expected behaviour

Uninstallation should be possible

Steps to reproduce the problem

Install the release from Github, then try to deinstall

Kittyfisto commented 4 years ago

It's a shame you want to uinstall tailviewer, but thanks for reporting this issue ;)

I must have forgotten to implement this part. As a temporary workaround, you'll have to delete the "%ProgramFiles%\Tailviewer" folder manually. In case the entry of installed applications doesn't vanish, you can get rid of this in the following way:

Please make sure to backup the windows registry before doing those steps

  1. Open the registry editor by clicking start => regedit => enter
  2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\
  3. Find the folder named "Tailviewer"
  4. Delete the entire folder

Once deleted, tailviewer should no longer be part of the list of installed applications on your system.

PhilLab commented 4 years ago

No worries mate, I wanted to uninstall because I wanted to downgrade the version to check out some minor issues I reported as Github tickets :-) Tailviewer is still installed 👍

Kittyfisto commented 4 years ago

Fixed with v0.9.2