Problems uninstalling Office 2007
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Posted by:
anonymous_9363
15 years ago
ORIGINAL: mdlisterSo all that needs to happen is for you to use your favourite process/file/registry monitor to determine what process is holding the file open. Then, add a mechanism to stop/kill that process when an uninstall is taking place. It's probably one of Microsoft's "Let's run this tool just in case the user wants to do that thing he does once every four years" processes.
when running the uninstall as above it uses the config to make it silent but looking at the log file it says theres a file locked and windows installer requires a reboot ?
Posted by:
mdlister
15 years ago
Sorry was at home when posting this so i couldnt get the exact message, the file it has looks to be the actual uninstaller?
FILESINUSE: One or more (windowless) processes are holding filse in use.
FILESINUSE: No files have been reported in use, yet a reboot is requested from windows installer. Reboot will be required.
FILESINUSE: Scheduling reboot operation: Deleting file c:\config.msi\40374.rbg. Must reboot to complete operation.
then at the end of the log it exits on a return code: 1641
FILESINUSE: One or more (windowless) processes are holding filse in use.
FILESINUSE: No files have been reported in use, yet a reboot is requested from windows installer. Reboot will be required.
FILESINUSE: Scheduling reboot operation: Deleting file c:\config.msi\40374.rbg. Must reboot to complete operation.
then at the end of the log it exits on a return code: 1641
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