Why do Windows Installers (.msi files) take so much longer to uninstall than other installers?
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Mar 15, 202628871 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Since the Windows XP days, Windows Installers (.msi files), including InstallShield installers (which is just a bootstrap for MSI) has taken around five times longer to uninstall an application than other installers. The same is also usually true about installing. Why do they still take this long, …
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Windows installer first systematically creates a system restore point, which is a quite slow operation. Also from the article entitled, appropriately, "Windows Installer sucks", an excerpt: It used to be that installation would consist of a program …
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