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how do I uninstall labview application with no uninstall program

I have built an application and selected to not have an "uninstall" application in the various 5.1 app builder options. I did not think this would be a problem since I thought the application would show up in my add/remove programs and could be removed from there. However, it seems that if no uninstall program is selected then the application also does not appear in the add/remove section of control panel. Do I just delete the directory of the application? Are there any registry settings to worry about. I have seen this on Win 2K and Win 98. I have not tried others.
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There are registry settings when you install the application builder, and probably an association is made in the registry to open your application and have it spawn the runtime engine of the correct version. However, as the Windows Registry is the most obsolete piece of software junk on the planet, and so chock full of mysteries, incosistencies, and well, a whole list of things that I could complain about, I cannot say for certain what registry settings are added/changed when you do an installation.

I will make this suggestion. Just delete the folder, and also, you will need to delete the "my application".ini file in the root directory, or wherever your application is located (which could be taken care of when you delete the folder, but who knows.)

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ce you have deleted the folder, any remaining registry settings left over will be added to the rather large list of leftover registry entries from other applications that are unistalled/deleted. The truth of the matter is that I have NEVER seen an application completely remove all of itself, or its registry entries. I don't even know if uninstallation removes ANY registry entries.

If we are all lucky, someone at Microsoft will take a hint and get rid of the registry. Maybe then we can have flash resident operating systems. Until then, I'll stick with Linux, thank you....
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It probably wouldn't hurt to clean up your registry after deleting all those folders. You can use RegClean utilities available for download on the web or just delete the keys manually. On your 98 machine, you will likely find keys located in the following directories of the registry editor (Start>>Run>>Regedit)

Windows>>Current Version>>Installer>>Components
Windows>>Current Version>>Installer>>Products
Windows>>Current Version>>Folders

With that said, you'd probably have to search for the name of your program to be able to find most of these (Edit>>Find), as they are usually sorted by the product code.

Hope this helps!

Jim Cahow
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
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