That's great Bob, thanks. I'll look into it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Arnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jason Rivers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "WiX Users" <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Using UninstallString to uninstall multiple MSIs


> Jason Rivers wrote:
>> How do I configure the system so that my setup.exe (which is a stub
>> that can launch a number of MSIs) is run when the user chooses to
>> uninstall my application? I've tried changing various UninstallString
>> registry entries but nothing seems to have any effect.
>
> When Add/Remove Programs shows an entry for a product installed by MSI,
> it uses the MSI API to uninstall the product, not the UninstallString
> value. To invoke another setup.exe, you need to write the Uninstall key
> manually. See
> http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/tags/ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT/default.aspx
> for a set of issues about doing so.
>
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