I typically recommend exactly what Raymond suggests. In Office we leave around
pretty much all the settings the user tweaks. There is a nice side effect of
leaving this data behind (beyond the fact that you don't go insane trying to
load all user hives without hosing roaming scenarios), you can actually migrate
the users old settings to a new version of your app, if the user chose to
upgrade. If you toast the user settings then there is no chance to do this
migration.
I don't have a good answer for the fact that leaving the user stuff behind does
clutter up the profile. However, with today's architectures, I personally
believe the clutter is better than the clean-up.
My $0.02.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Mumford
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 06:56
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] What do I do with per-user data when I uninstall?
I read a blog posting titled "What do I do with per-user data when I
uninstall?<http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2007/09/17/4948130.aspx>"
this morning and have often asked myself the same question. What do you experts
think?
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