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If there a way to generate and display a result code when an
application is uninstalled.

Steve

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Hi Stephen,

> If there a way to generate and display a result code when an
> application is uninstalled.

Do you mean some kind of code that is sent to your (web) server when an
application is uninstalled?

Friedrich

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No, all I want is a specific code number to be displayed on the users
PC when one of my applications is uninstalled. The user will then
email the number to me.

Steve

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> No, all I want is a specific code number to be displayed on the users
> PC when one of my applications is uninstalled. The user will then
> email the number to me.

Hi Steve,

Sounds like your looking for proof of an uninstall for a refund.

So what keeps them from simply re-installing it after you provide the
refund?

Armadillo can do this if your using their hardware locking (IOW - a
registration code is tied to a specific hardware fingerprint), but even
Armadillo can't provide it without binding it to the hardware.

If your just looking for "something" as an indicator, you could do
something like store the SetupProtect code (or password) and when
uninstalling take that code and append/prepend chars to it, display it to
the user (or even write to a text file in the temp folder) and then
uninstall after they click OK.

It wouldn't prevent a reinstall, but it would give you an indicator that
they had uninstalled.

Does that help?

Charles




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Hi Steve,

> No, all I want is a specific code number to be displayed on the users
> PC when one of my applications is uninstalled. The user will then
> email the number to me.

Aha, okay.

Exactly what Charles said.

Because the uninstall is fully scriptable, you can do virtually anything in
your uninstall application. But you have to develop your own script or DLL
code that generates this "specific code number" for you.

You can even send messages from the uninstall to your server.

http://www.lindersoft.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3711

Friedrich

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