Uninstalling leaves several files and assemblies behind

[chasadams]

It's been asked before, but I've found no answer: how to cleanly and thoroughly remove Measurement Studio? Simply uninstalling from Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Programs and Features is not sufficient. I still have assemblies in C:\Windows\assembly, C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_32\NationalInstruments.Common.Native and the like. There remain, of course, references throughout the registry. (This appears to be a sort of branding technique companies have used over the last decade. No one removes their product references from the registry during uninstall.)

I'm tempted to remove the files by hand but fear doing so might have unintended consequences.

[srdfrn]

Hi chasadams,

We actually leak those references to the GAC on purpose, so that even after you remove Measurement Studio, your computer can still run applications that have been built on that machine using our software.  Therefore, I believe that the only way you could remove them would be to do so manually.

Hope this information helps!

Regards,

Stephanie R.

National Instruments