QIFW maintenancetool uninstall not working from Windows Settings
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In Windows 11 the installer I have built using QIFW's binarycreator (v4.8) won't uninstall the application when the "Uninstall" menu option is selected from Settings | Apps | Installed Apps. I see a two windows briefly flash onto the screen in quick succession. The first appears to be a CMD window and the second might be the maintenancetool, but it's hard to tell.
In other scenarios maintenancetool behaves as expected. When launched from Control Panel | Add/Remove programs it launches with the "remove components" radio button checked. It also launches without error from a CMD window or from the File Explorer.
Any ideas what could be going wrong? And how to diagnose the issue?
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In Windows 11 the installer I have built using QIFW's binarycreator (v4.8) won't uninstall the application when the "Uninstall" menu option is selected from Settings | Apps | Installed Apps. I see a two windows briefly flash onto the screen in quick succession. The first appears to be a CMD window and the second might be the maintenancetool, but it's hard to tell.
In other scenarios maintenancetool behaves as expected. When launched from Control Panel | Add/Remove programs it launches with the "remove components" radio button checked. It also launches without error from a CMD window or from the File Explorer.
Any ideas what could be going wrong? And how to diagnose the issue?
Apparently this is expected behaviour.
"Note: Some apps can't be uninstalled from the Settings app right now. For help uninstalling these apps, follow the instructions to uninstall from Control Panel."
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I notice that installers made using InstallShield don't have this issue so I made a minimal test using QIFW in case it was related to our customizations and that still has the issue.
In QIFW is this something that I can fix in an installer script or will it require an update to QIFW?
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