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I continued to update FolderShare installs today and ran into a new wrinkle with my home XP desktop. While trying to upgrade the existing version — or even just plain uninstall it — I’d continually get a prompt to supply the original install file for that old version.

Now, I don’t know about you, but I never keep those around. And why should I? I’ve never needed one. But no matter what I tried, I couldn’t get past that prompt.

I even tracked down and downloaded the install (.msi) file that matched the version, but I still kept getting the prompts. Clearly, something was borked.

I whined about it on twitter and got a great link from IDisposable (blog) reminding me of Microsoft’s very own Windows Installer CleanUp Utility. Yeah, the same utility I last mentioned in June of ‘05.

With the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility, you can remove a program’s Windows Installer configuration information. You may want to remove the Windows Installer configuration information for your program if you experience installation (Setup) problems. For example, you may have to remove a program’s Windows Installer configuration information if you have installation problems when you try to add (or remove) a component of your program that was not included when you first installed your program.

Bingo. Amazing how many things I’ve written about and then subsequently forgotten over the past few years!

I downloaded it, ran it against the old install of FolderShare and all is now groovy.

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