RE: Re: Purging WDSC, et al, from PC

I can't get WSDC 5.0 to install on a Win2K box to save my life.  I've
cleaned and scrubbed until both my fingers and disk drives are raw.  Even
after a couple of bouts with various registry cleaning tools, it looks like
there's still a hidden or non-obvious key interfering with the install
process.  WDT installed fine, so maybe it's time to try WDSC again (I'm
hoping for spontaneous remission).

It seems to me that as applications get larger and more complex, a
disproportionately-larger amount of time should be spent on the
install/remove process (it looks like WDSC adds several thousand keys to the
registry).  Since I don't package PC software, I'm not familiar with how
packaging utilities work, but I wonder why the WDSC install procedure
doesn't load all CD's at the beginning of the process so it will run
unattended.

Well, it's probably time for a cold start anyway.  U.S. Thanksgiving is a
four-day weekend; that should just be enough time to load Win2K SP's.

-reeve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On
> Behalf Of Booth Martin
> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 2:59 PM
> To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [WDSCI-L] Re: Purging WDSC, et al, from PC
> 
> my experience is that uninstalling is needed and also impossible.
> 
> The whole thing has become a total mess. I suppose IBM uses fresh new
> machines. I've always upgraded or migrated and as a result I now have
files
> from the Win 95 and OS/2 days. I've given up trying to use the tools
> escepting Client Access.
> 
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Booth Martin http://www.MartinVT.com
> Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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> 
> -------Original Message-------
> 
> From: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
> Date: 11/7/2003 1:26:06 PM
> To: 'Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries'
> Subject: RE: [WDSCI-L] Re: Purging WDSC, et al, from PC
> 
> My experience starting with WDT has been that uninstalling is mandatory. I
> just reinstalled 5.0 because of problems I caused. It took five
hours--four
> tries--not counting the time spent uninstalling on the previous day. I
> should have edited the registry manually instead of using Reg Clean and
> manually deleted every file remaining after the uninstall. My filters from
> the previous installation somehow survived totally intact. Fortunately it
> works.
> 
> When I went to wsci from wdt I tried to install over--bad mistake.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Scott Johnson [mailto:sjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 11:10 AM
> > To: 'Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries'
> > Subject: RE: [WDSCI-L] Re: Purging WDSC, et al, from PC
> >
> >
> >
> > I did an 'upgrade' for one of the programmers here from 5.0
> > to 5.1. I did not
> > remove 5.0 in any way. When the 'upgrade' was all done, he
> > would get 2
> > instances too. Close one and the other one would close. We
> > could not figure
> > out why this was happening. Shut it down and restarted it
> > multiple times. We
> > then uninstalled 5.0 and 5.1, cleaned up the directories, and
> > cleaned up the
> > registry. Installed 5.1 and it worked fine then.
> >
> > Guess you were lucky that you only had it happen once and it
> > did not re-occur.
> >
> > -- Scott J.
> >
> > >
> > > Was surprised to see 2 instances of the client starting up,
> > but after
> > > shutting everythign down, only one instance comes up now.
> > >
> >
> >
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