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As most of you probably noticed, when uninstalling an MSI package Windows will ask for the original .msi file. Why is that? I can only see disadvantages to that: not resilient to network changes. not resilient to local disk changes. unexpected by users. typically requires users to leave their desk and start a crusade to get the correct CD. kind of proves installations are not self-contained. promotes the use of unsafe tools such as msizap. which in turn promotes the "next time I'll just use a zip file" mentality. Could someone shed some light on this? Fix Broken Uninstall : You can try the

During the past years, I have installed many Python libraries with various Python versions. To make them ready to work immediately, I installed them blindly without control. Currently they're causing problems when I tried to install pynest which invokes numpy, scipy and matplotlib. After struggling, I am going to clean and reinstall Python and the libraries. After investigation, I found Python 2.5/2.6/2.7/3.2 on my system, and each of them has some copies or other things at: (my OS == Mac OS X 10.7.5 Lion ) /Library/Frameworks/ /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/ /opt/local/bin/ /Applications/ /usr

Is there a simple way to hook into the standard ' Add or Remove Programs ' functionality using PowerShell to uninstall an existing application ? Or to check if the application is installed? Jeff Hillman $app = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product | Where-Object { $_.Name -match "Software Name" } $app.Uninstall() Edit: Rob found another way to do it with the Filter parameter: $app = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product ` -Filter "Name = 'Software Name'" EDIT: Over the years this answer has gotten quite a few upvotes. I would like to add some comments. I have not used PowerShell since, but I

I have an issue that I can only assume is with Xcode, where my apps take forever to run and crash the phone/restart about 75% of the time. I tried using older versions of the code that I'd saved instead, but they had the same effect, which they didn't use to have about a month ago. I've looked up every single possible way to solve this issue for the past few weeks have haven't found anything, so I want to completely uninstall Xcode and clear all settings; but I can't find a way to do this. I can uninstall it, but when I reinstall it, it still has all of my old settings and lists of projects