Windows uninstall is incomplete

[djcs]

The Windows uninstallation process for Hugin installed with the Windows installer doesn't remove everything. It should.

If autopano-sift-c.exe has been installed manually in Hugin's binaries directory, neither it nor the binaries directory nor the Hugin parent directory is removed.

Several registry keys aren't removed at all; of these, the first three should *definitely* be removed by uninstallation:

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.pto]
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\HuginProject]
    [HKEY_USERS\S-...\Software\hugin]
    [HKEY_USERS\S-...\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ComDlg32\OpenSaveMRU\pto]
    [HKEY_USERS\S-...\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\pto]

djcs

[cba53 (cba53)]

Where do you find a Windows installer ??
In Hugin_2010.2.0_Windows_x32.7z, I find subdirectories, but no setup.exe. Unfortunately, after unpacking, I try to start hugin.exe in \bin - on my new Win 7 Pro 32-bit, fully patched -, but I get an error message "not compatible with the Windows version executed"; it tells me to look if a x86 (32-bit) or x64- (64 bit) version is necessary and to tell the editor of the sofware.

In
http://lemur.dreamhosters.com/hugin/
there is an archive of a compiled version 2010.1, also with subdirs; 'hugin.exe' also in \bin is directly executable and works OK. But newer versions are always better, and I am unable to compile the sources myself.

[djcs (djcs)]

Where do you find a Windows installer? Right here on Sourceforge -- 2009 version. I'm also puzzled about the posting of an inoperative package, but I imagine that will soon be corrected.

djcs

[Matthew Petroff (matthewpetroff)]

Any file not installed by the installer should not be deleted by the uninstaller. If someone accidentally saved something in the Hugin folder, he or she would not want it to be deleted by the uninstaller. This behavior exists for good reason as accidents do happen, and people do save things to obscure locations.

A few registry keys are left behind in HKEY_USERS for preferences. These keys are deleted if one selects "Clean Registry Settings" in the uninstaller. The latest version of the installer does not leave anything behind in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE on my machine if "Clean Registry Settings" is selected when Hugin is removed.