Tuesday, July 03, 2007 9:44 AM
We all know that there are always some kind of problems with software (especially Microsoft's) installation. In my experience, the most frustrating problem is not being able to uninstall a software that you installed yourself without any problem.
I have been using Visual Studio Team Suite for a quite a long time and it's working great especially after SP1. What I found the other day that I'm unable to create a New Personal Starter Kit Web Site anymore. It's just not showing up as a template when I do Create New Web Site. So, I reinstalled the Kit but nothing worked. Trying to fix this problem, somehow I screwed up the Visual Studio (still don't know how reinstalling would end up like this). So, I decided to uninstall the whole Visual Studio 2005. Add/Remove program --> Uninstall. NOPE! won't work... The error is "Can't find the proper order of installation". WTF!
When I almost gave up, I recalled this utility. I installed that and one by one removed all the parts of Visual Studio 2005. It works great now. I tell you this Windows Installer Cleaner is the best piece of software Microsoft ever created. It just works (for me at least, always).
Happy uninstalling!