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It's up to the application to maintain any preferences you set in it. The installer package generally takes care of path configurations, etc. It's amazing how easy it's been to make Win32 installable programs since about 1990.



Uninstall has got to properly clean the registry, and filesystem, and should require manifests.


I cant remember the last time I've uninstalled anything.




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