Crafting software» msi http://davidlaing.com David Laing's thoughts on software development Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:02:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Howto uninstall a broken MSI http://davidlaing.com/2009/05/27/howto-uninstall-a-broken-msi/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=howto-uninstall-a-broken-msi http://davidlaing.com/2009/05/27/howto-uninstall-a-broken-msi/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 10:26:05 +0000 mrdavidlaing http://davidlaing.com/?p=179 I’m busy creating an MSI installer package at work; and managed to get my system into a bit of a knot.

Basically, my custom action crashes on uninstall – so when I try to remove the broken MSI, it throws an error and rolls back the uninstall process.

AAARGH! How do I remove the broken MSI now that I’ve fixed the bug?

Fortunately MSKB supplies this helpful little tool:

Windows Installer CleanUp Utility

Simply run, select offending MSI, and it will forceably remove any MSI registration from your system.

Got me out of a pickle; and will hopefully do the same for you.

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