Usurp <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Sent: Feb 24, 2011 7:08 AM >To: wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Re: Strange uninstall issue - privileges. > > >John Drescher wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:37 AM, gmureddu <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > >> > dimesio wrote: >> > >> > > >> > > http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-9893ae50079ca7a959258f0bc9a17aaf2e69b391 >> > > >> > >> > Maybe I did not make myself clear. I don't wan to remove my entire wine "installation", as it so happens that I have >> > some applications that I installed a while back which required a bit of registry trickery to get working, and since >> > removing the whole .wine directory is essentially removing the "Windows" install, that is what I do not want. >> > >> > >> >> Then delete the install folder for the application you want to remove >> and use your distro's menu editor to remove the shortcuts from the >> menu. >> >> John > >I hope you don't do that on a real computer - thats the ugliest way to "uninstall" an app. > I've had to do this to remove a program that would not uninstall properly using the Windows Uninstaller. About 1/2 a day to clean out the Registry. James McKenzie
