User Guide: Navigating Through Effective File Elimination Conversations

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Registration
• Using Advanced Installer
  • GUI
  • Working with Projects
  • Installer Project
    * Product Information
    * Resources
    * Files and Folders
    * Files
    * Temporary Files
    * File Operations
    * File Removal Dialog
    * File Duplication Dialog
    * File Copy/Move Dialog
    * File Download Dialog
    * Extract Archive Dialog
    * Folders
    * Permissions Tab - Installer Project
    * Shortcuts
    * Shortcuts
    * INI Files
    * XML Files
    * JSON Files
    * Text File Updates
    * Windows Libraries
    * Tiles
    * Java Products
    * Registry
    * File Associations
    * Assemblies
    * Drivers
    * Services
    * Package Definition
    * Requirements
    * User Interface
    * System Changes
    * Server
    * Custom Behavior
  • Patch Project
  • Merge Module Project
  • Updates Configuration Project
  • Windows Store App Project
  • Modification Package Project
  • Optional Package Project
  • Windows Mobile CAB Projects
  • Visual Studio Extension Project
  • Software Installer Wizards - Advanced Installer
  • Visual Studio integration
  • Alternative to AdminStudio/Wise
  • Replace Wise
  • Migrating from Visual Studio Installer
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Shell Integration
  • Command Line
  • Advanced Installer PowerShell Automation Interfaces
• Features and Functionality
• Tutorials
• Samples
• How-tos
• FAQs
• Windows Installer
• Deployment Technologies
• IT Pro
• MSIX
• Video Tutorials
• Advanced Installer Blog
• Table of Contents

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File Removal Dialog

In this dialog, you can customize a file removal operation. Such operations will be presented by the icon.

This feature should not be used for System folders as it could lead to System corruption.

Using this feature for folders containing a very large amount of data will increase the installation time accordingly.

By default Windows Installer will remove only the resources that were installed by the MSI package. This removal operation is intended to be used for external resources created by custom behavior.

General

Name

The name of the file to be removed. Use wildcard patterns for removing multiple files. You can localize this value.

Component

The component which will trigger the file removal operation.

Remove On

The time when the removal will be executed. There are three available moments:

• Component install
• Component uninstall
• Both

Condition

Specify a condition for the removal operation.

Remove empty folders

Enable the removal of empty folders that match the specified name.

Remove non-empty folders

Enable the removal of non-empty folders that match the specified name.

You can specify a whole folder to be removed upon install or uninstall from theFolder Operations Tab .

The removal operation is extremely useful when the installed resources are modified post install and would not be removed otherwise.

Schedule

Execute during package installation

This default option executes the file removal operation during the package installation.

Execute upon system reboot

This option will execute the file removal operation during the system reboot to ensure that files in use can be removed.

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