Re: Uninstalling shortcuts

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 03:11

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Jeff Kish wrote:

>I don't write anything explicitly to the registry to keep track of
>things though.

If you don't want to mess with the registry, then you would create an
install log that lists all the files/shortcuts and paths actually used
during the installation.
Then on uninstall, you could parse the log and undo everything.

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