Re: some windows 7 silent install/uninstall issues

[Steffen Macke <dia diagramr biz>]

Hello Peter,

sorry for the late reply.

On 25.06.2013 13:40, Peter BRENEIS wrote:
> i noticed that there is a .dia folder in "%userprofile%" created after the
> program starts first time.
> what is the reason for that behaviour and how can i change that path to
> another location for all users on the machine? (without adding set
> variables, e.g. %userprofile%\Documents\dia\)
The .dia folder contains per-user configuration data, user-defined 
shapes and sheets,
python scripts, etc. If you look at Linux/UNIX programs you'll find that 
this is a very common behaviour.
Dia places the .dia folder in the users home directory. Thus changing 
the enviroment variable "HOME"
will change the location of the .dia folder. If you would like to place 
it in %userprofile%\Documents, try

SET HOME=%userprofile%\Documents

> the uninstaller does work when running it from windows explorer, but
> running the uninstaller with option /S from an elevated command prompt
> does not work, it does not delete the folder structure.
You will notice that there's a prompt asking you to confirm the deletion 
of those files and folders.
With /s, there's no such confirmation and in turn no deletion. User data 
is at risk here. If you're
working with unattended/automated uninstallations, judge yourself if you 
can safely delete these
files/folders and add a script for this.

>  is there any information on silent switches for the installer?

These are the standard switches for NSIS installers:

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Which_command_line_parameters_can_be_used_to_configure_installers

Regards,

Steffen