Should we handle this?

[Tom Spear]

While testing my uninstaller patch, I ran into the issue that was a
problem in Win95, where the uninstaller did not handle deletion of
it's uninstall registry key.  What I did was install a program that I
new put it's registry key under HKLM.  Then I copied that key to HKCU.
 Then I installed a program that I knew put its key under HKCU and
copied that key to HKLM.  Then I uninstalled each one with the copied
key.

The program's uninstaller removed the key that it was instructed to
take out, but left the other one behind.

My question is this.  If an uninstaller (outside of my test
environment) does not remove it's registry key before the process
exits, should our uninstaller check for that after the process exits,
and go ahead and remove the key, or should we make the user press the
uninstall button again and ask them if they want to remove the key
(like we already do, in the event they manually removed the program,
by deleting the folder)?

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Thanks

Tom

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