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I've created a Visual studio Setup Project, and I have an Installer Classes created for my main App. In this Installer Class, I overridden the Uninstaller function to clean extra folders created by my app. This works fine in windows XP, but not in Windows 7 since I assume it has something to do with UAC. How Can I force my Uninstaller to elevate privileges? I've asked this question in another post, but I wasn't clear on my intentions. I've found these links but I don't know if it's relevant: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370852.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370134

I'm writing a Wix-based installer that needs to upgrade from older, non-msi-based installations. I'm finding instances of previously installed components by searching directly in the Registry. To find the uninstaller for a component, I look in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\MyProgram And get the UninstallString value. This is fine, but I realised that for a 32 bit install on a 64 bit machine, the entry is actually at HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\MyProgram Is there anywhere else I ought to be looking? Eliezer There's a third

On Ubuntu 16.04, I mistakenly used root to install nvm, and then to install node.js 8.8.1 via nvm. I also used nvm alias default 8.8.1 , thinking it would correct my error. Now I would like to: Remove the default alias Uninstall node 8.8.1 Uninstall npm 4.8.5, which came along with node Uninstall nvm Reinstall everything correctly for the right non-sudo user It looks like I've succeeded with the first part: # nvm unalias default Deleted alias default - restore it with `nvm alias "default" "8.8.1"` But nvm refuses to uninstall node 8.8.1, because it is the only version installed: # nvm

I'm using a similar codesnippet as shown below to add an application shortcut on the homescreen: Intent shortcutIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN); shortcutIntent.setClassName(this, this.getClass().getName()); shortcutIntent.putExtra(EXTRA_KEY, "ApiDemos Provided This Shortcut"); // Then, set up the container intent (the response to the caller) Intent intent = new Intent(); intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SHORTCUT_INTENT, shortcutIntent); intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SHORTCUT_NAME, getString(R.string.shortcut_name)); Parcelable iconResource = Intent.ShortcutIconResource.fromContext( this, R

How to uninstall out-of-browser silverlight 4 application programmatically instead of using the contextmenu (e.g. if I want to replace the context menu)? Edit I have found in "Installing Silverlight applications without the browser involved" how to uninstall by calling the command-line: "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Silverlight\sllauncher.exe" /uninstall /origin:silverlight.net/content/samples/apps/… This can be used in:- dynamic cmd = AutomationFactory.CreateObject("WScript.Shell"); cmd.Run(run, 1, true); Is there any better solution? Pretty certain this isn't possible without resorting to COM