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PothosSDR does not fully uninstall from windows 10 #95

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lifeatthesharpend opened this issue Mar 28, 2022 · 3 comments
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PothosSDR does not fully uninstall from windows 10 #95

lifeatthesharpend opened this issue Mar 28, 2022 · 3 comments

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@lifeatthesharpend
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In windows 10 when I tried to uninstall the app never fully uninstalls and remains in the "Apps & Features" dialog box of windows 10. The SW is "Pothos SDR environment (vc16-x64)" on windows 10. After uninstall this still shows in the settings -> Apps & features
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once selecting uninstall the dialog box shows : Windows cannot find'C:\Projeram files\PothosSDR\Uninstall.exe' Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.

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The folder does not exist. but the OS still thinks it is installed.

@colaflaske
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The cause of this is an orphaned registry entry at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\PothosSDR.

If the folder C:\Program Files\PothosSDR is successfully deleted after uninstalling, then deleting the PothosSDR folder in the registry using regedit should be no problem. (disclaimer: don't normally mess with your registry)

@lifeatthesharpend
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that registry entry does not exsit
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and Pothos SDR environment is still there:
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The folder C:\Program Files\PothosSDR is not present

@lifeatthesharpend
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After doing a search for PothosSDR in the registry it found this:
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\PothosSDR
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after deleting the reg entry and substrings PothosSDR does look to be removed from the windows "Apps & features" dialog box

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