Hoops, hoops, hoops...

[James "Wez" Weatherall]

> Not quite. I should have finshed the story.
>
> The "hoops" part is that the Windows uninstall did not work and neither
did
> the -remove option.

If the -remove option failed, either you hadn't -install'ed WinVNC, or you
didn't have administrative priveliges.

> VNC is in good company with this problem.  I have seen VERY EXPENSIVE
> programs "fail to unload cuz they were not installed" and yet "fail to
load
> cuz it was already there".

These symptoms strongly suggest that either during install or uninstall, or
both, you weren't logged on as an administrator.  The only other time I've
seen these problems is when UninstallShield said "files are in use that need
deleting.  Reboot to delete them" and the product was then re-installed
without rebooting.

The classic example is WinNT's TCP/IP stack.  If you remove TCP/IP without
rebooting, then go in and re-install it, it'll fail to install and leave the
registry such that it thinks it's both installed and not installed!

> HOOPS HOOPS HOOPS!!
>
> How's that for tap dancing?

Pretty good.  You're a regular Fred Astair! :)

Cheers,

James "Wez" Weatherall
--
          "Xenophobes should go back to Xenophobia"
Laboratory for Communications Engineering, Cambridge - Tel : 766513
AT&T Labs Cambridge, UK                              - Tel : 343000




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