Uninstalling demo/trial of Visual Studio 2008 Team System
- by Ian Ringrose
I wish to uninstall the trail copy of VS 2008 Team System, as the trial is coming to its end. I had VS 2008 Professional Edition installed on the machine to start with and it still shows up in Add/Remove Problems.
I am hoping that when I uninstall VS 2008 Team System I will be left with a working VS 2008 Professional Edition.
When I try to uninstall VS 2008 Team System, I very quickly get an error dialog that says:
A problem has been encountered while
loading the setup components.
Canceling setup.
Help!
Progress or lack there of so fare
I have done dir %temp%*.log in a command prompt and can see any log files that are recent
I am going to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Installer#Diagnostic_logging to see if I can get any logging
Aaron Stebner's WebLog has a post on where VS put's is log files, he also has a post on were some other products put there log files
gives some info about where VS setup puts it's logs etc
Aaron Ruckman provided me with the solution after I sent him the log files.