Jay Schlackman Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 A minor problem I've noticed after downloading 2.6 today: the uninstaller doesn't remove the program shortcut in the start menu. Happens when I use the manual install and an unattended MSI install with a custom shortcut location (using the PROGRAMSGROUP parameter) "Uninstalling Paint.NET? What a crazy suggestion!" I hear you cry. Sure, I don't intent to uninstall it anytime soon, but I do plan to roll it out to about a hundred computers on my school network, and I don't want to have to clean up afterwards if and when I have to remove it. Ideally, I'd like the uninstaller to remove at least the program icon, and preferably the folder too if it was created by the installer, and is empty. Can anyone else confirm this problem or is it just me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 Ack. I'm seeing this as well. This used to work. I'll make sure this is fixed for v2.61, which we're planning for the end of the month. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 I've found and fixed the bug (it'll be there for v2.61). We store the location of the shortcut in the registry in HKLM \ Software \ Paint.NET \ ProgramsShortcut. When we go to delete it, we do some sanity checking on the filename there: does it end in .lnk, and is it in the right directory? Turns out the code for the latter was flawed and was returning false negatives (I guess I'd rather have that than false positive and have it delete some other file). Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Schlackman Posted March 22, 2006 Author Share Posted March 22, 2006 Great news. Thanks for the quick response! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted March 31, 2006 Share Posted March 31, 2006 Allright, 2.61 is available and should fix this for you. I'd be interested to know how your deployment goes! Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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