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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon icidasset

Unable to uninstall from Control Panel in Windows 10

Open Centribo opened this issue 3 years ago • 5 comments

Currently on Windows 10, Version 10.0.19043 Build 19043 with Diffuse v3.1.0.

Was trying to uninstall Diffuse by going to the control panel. First is that the install is listed as "Diffuse 3.0.2" though I can verify that v3.1.0 is the installed version. When I try to uninstall, the uninstaller tells me that Diffuse is running, and it will try to close it before uninstalling. Trying to proceed, it can't close it so it doesn't proceed with the uninstall and keeps telling me to close Diffuse. I've verified with Task Manager, tasklist in CMD, and get-process in powershell that no "Diffuse" process is running

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Centribo avatar Jun 27 '22 15:06 Centribo

Thanks! Seems to be a https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder issue, which I use to make "native" builds. More info here: https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues/6916 (see last comment)

Seems like I have to upgrade, will do so for next release 👍

PS. "Native" build code is at https://github.com/icidasset/diffuse-native in case anyone is looking for that.

icidasset avatar Jul 07 '22 20:07 icidasset

I made a pre-release with new builds: https://github.com/icidasset/diffuse/releases/tag/3.2.0-pre.1 (now uses Tauri) Let me know if that works for you. It's now an .msi file instead of .exe

icidasset avatar Aug 09 '22 11:08 icidasset

Can confirm the 3.2.0 installer correctly uninstalls on Windows 10, though the installation doesn't seem to install "over"/replace the older version, and it's listed as a separate installation in the Control Panel. Control panel shows both Diffuse 3.2.0 and Diffuse 3.0.2.

Centribo avatar Aug 10 '22 21:08 Centribo

Thanks for testing! Yeah the separate installation is expected, it's a totally different build system I'm using. It's all automatically generated, so not much I can do there. Will close once 3.2.0 is released.

icidasset avatar Aug 12 '22 16:08 icidasset

chiming in here to say, if you still want to get rid of the old installation and its generated files, you could try using Revo uninstaller or some equivalent. but I doubt creating an uninstaller for the old version which is using the old build system is in the current scope of the project.

Netherquark avatar Aug 12 '22 17:08 Netherquark