- #HOW TO RE REGISTER WINDOWS INSTALLER INSTALL#
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- #HOW TO RE REGISTER WINDOWS INSTALLER CODE#
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- #HOW TO RE REGISTER WINDOWS INSTALLER DOWNLOAD#
Copy and paste the following lines one at a time into Terminal. The instructions in this article are for both cases, so some of the commands may result in an error. For example, if you have your Dropbox folder in the path /Volumes/DifferentPlace/Dropbox, you need to replace ~/Dropbox from the following instructions to "/Volumes/DifferentPlace/Dropbox".ĭepending on your operating system distribution and the package you used during installation, you could have Dropbox files in two different locations. #HOW TO RE REGISTER WINDOWS INSTALLER FULL#
If you have placed your Dropbox folder in a custom location, replace all ~/Dropbox with the full location of your Dropbox folder in quotation marks.
Important: We assume that your Dropbox folder is in the default pathway. #HOW TO RE REGISTER WINDOWS INSTALLER PASSWORD#
When prompted, enter your computer admin password (not your Dropbox password) and press enter.Copy and paste the following lines one at a time into the terminal.Delete the remaining Dropbox system folders.When the uninstall finishes, restart your computer.Or, right-click the Dropbox app icon and select Move to Trash. Locate the Dropbox app and drag and drop it to the Trash.
Open your Finder and click Applications. Click your profile picture or initials, and select Quit Dropbox. Click the Dropbox icon in your menu bar. For example, if your Dropbox folder is located at “D:\OtherDrive\Folder\Dropbox”, choose “D:\OtherDrive\Folder”. #HOW TO RE REGISTER WINDOWS INSTALLER DOWNLOAD#
Since your original Dropbox folder is still on your computer at this point, if you don’t want to create a new one, click Advanced Settings during the download prompts and click the location of your existing Dropbox folder. #HOW TO RE REGISTER WINDOWS INSTALLER INSTALL#
Download and install the Dropbox desktop app. Note: If you can’t find the folders, it means they’re already deleted and you can move on to the next step. Repeat steps 8 through 10 with the following folders, deleting the “Dropbox” folder inside each: “%APPDATA%, “%PROGRAMFILES%”, and “%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%”. Inside that folder, delete the “Dropbox” folder. Open File Explorer search for the folder “%LOCALAPPDATA%”. At no point in this process should you be deleting that folder. Note: Don’t delete the main Dropbox folder on your computer. (To do so, right-click each folder and click Delete). Delete the “Dropbox” and “DropboxUpdate” folders. Inside that folder, find the “Dropbox” and “DropboxUpdate” folders by searching in the folders named “SOFTWARE” and “WOW6432Node”. Double-click the folder named “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE” to open it. 
Uninstall the Dropbox desktop app from your computer. (To do so, click the Dropbox icon in your taskbar, click your avatar (profile picture or initials), and click Quit). However, my solution actually works, in contrast to the previous answer. I didn't find a good solution for my bonus question though.Įdit: I started writing this before the previous answer came. If you want to specify a dedicated icon, it seems you still have to do this yourself, like the following (code from the linked tutorial): This will register the file type with your executable and will supply a default icon (a white page with the application icon on it), which is sufficient for my needs. Myext is the file extension without the dot, and MyApplication.exe is the file id (not name) of the executable file (i.e. Add a ProgId element to the component containing your executable, like the following: It shows an advertised solution and does not work with WiX 3.0, but given that information, I figured it out. Īfter some additional research, I found a partial answer to this question in the WiX Tutorial. #HOW TO RE REGISTER WINDOWS INSTALLER CODE#
See the updated code posted in response to this question. Rather than writing everything manually I'm now using proper ProgId definitions which improves handling for advertised packages. Update: 12 months have passed since my original answer and I have a better understanding of file associations. Here's a complete example that we're using in our installer. With Vista there's the new "default programs" interface, again you write everything out to the registry. We just write everything out to the registry and then have a separate component that takes over the system-wide default and is only installed if no other application has already registered itself as the default.
Unfortunately there's no way to do a "safe" association with Windows Installer.
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