From: Michael Geary (Mike_at_Geary.com)
Date: Fri Oct 05 2001 - 13:06:03 EDT
> >MS *does* give you a way to cleanly remove these directories--the entries
> >in add/remove programs. I must have missed some earlier discussion--did
> >those not work?
>
> Well, I may be mistaken, but I was under the impression that selecting
> "Add/remove programs" and "Windows 2000 Service Pack 2" would result into
> removing SP2, ie. reverting to SP1 or whatever was before SP2. This is not
> what we wanted to do: we wanted to keep SP2, but remove the
> \WINNT\$NT...-directories that appear to contain the older files (used to
> back out).
Actually, I was mistaken. I just tried it in a virtual machine, and they
don't give you any option to remove the uninstall information. I was sure
they used to do this--it seems pretty dumb not to have it.
> >In any case, now that you've deleted the directories manually, you can
> >use TweakUI to clean up the add/remove programs list.
>
> Thanks, I'll have to re-install TweakUI. I had it at some stage, but
> didn't realize it had such an option.
There's even an easier way. Now that you've deleted the uninstall directory,
you can select "Windows 2000 Service Pack 2" and click Change/Remove. It
will tell you that there was an error and ask if you want to remove the
entry from the list.
You can also remove things from the list manually by using RegEdit. The
uninstall information is in:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
and each entry in the list is a subkey under that.
There may also be per-user uninstall information in:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
(but the service pack will be in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key).
-Mike
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