[Wine] Strange uninstall issue - privileges.

[James Mckenzie]

Usurp <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>Sent: Feb 24, 2011 7:08 AM
>To: wine-users at winehq.org
>Subject: [Wine]  Re: Strange uninstall issue - privileges.
>
>
>John Drescher wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:37 AM, gmureddu <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
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>> > dimesio wrote:
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>> > > http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-9893ae50079ca7a959258f0bc9a17aaf2e69b391
>> > > 
>> > 
>> > Maybe I did not make myself clear. I don't wan to remove my entire wine "installation", as it so happens that I have
>> > some applications that I installed a while back which required a bit of registry trickery to get working, and since
>> > removing the whole .wine directory is essentially removing the "Windows" install, that is what I do not want.
>> > 
>> > 
>> 
>> Then delete the install folder for the application you want to remove
>> and use your distro's menu editor to remove the shortcuts from the
>> menu.
>> 
>> John
>
>I hope you don't do that on a real computer - thats the ugliest way to "uninstall" an app.
>
I've had to do this to remove a program that would not uninstall properly using the Windows Uninstaller.  About 1/2 a day to clean out the Registry.

James McKenzie