windows installer cleanup utility

Since there has been a lot of complaining about the windows installer
I thought I would mention that windows produces a utility that can be
downloaded from the windows knowledge base that will clean up
installations that were performed using windows installer. I really
have no idea if this utility does any good or bad but I thought a few
of you here would like to give it a try and report back with any
findings. If any of you do try it please let me know what exactely it
does and what it should be used for.
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 238413 or do a search for windows
installer cleanup utility

 

It is definitely not for XP and I think should be used with great care and
forethought.

 

I just used it on XP (test system) to remove SW2004 SP2. It worked like a
charm. Something got corrupted and add/remove would not honor the install
so therefore, it wouldn't uninstall or reinstall. Using the utility it
wiped SW'04 SP2 clean off. I could then delete the directories manually.
I'm now reinstalling SW'04 SP0 from scratch, so far without incident. Just
what I wanted. Then it's off to play with SP2.1 wahoo! Man are my hopes
up for 2.1!!

According to my little test the utility does just what it says.

- Eddy

 

What about: Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 290301 ???

 

After nagging here in forum I started to search such utility with

Please share link, I'm not even sure what terms to search for. Thanks.

 

Oh.... here it is:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;290301

For XP that is.