Thanks Maren.

Yes, I had already clicked the button to go ahead with uninstalling. And all the file names were flashing away as it worked. And I think there was a progress bar.

I don't know anything about uninstalling works. If it would break something to stop after it already started, then it makes sense why there's no way to stop it. (Although if that's the case, it seems like the other buttons ought to be missing entirely, instead of grayed out.) But I thought with the Finish button, it wouldn't actually go through with the process if I clicked Cancel. Or if I click Finish, then it would finish. Otherwise, what's the Finish button for?

I don't remember exactly what the message boxes i was getting said. But there were something like 6 or 8 of them. They would show a file path to share/keys/something with the "something" that I had never seen before. I've only ever changed one key shortcut, and none of them were that key. And it would say something like 'this file has been changed, are you sure you want to delete. There were no option in those message boxes either, to stop the process. It was either OK or Skip.

After the process finished, which I couldn't stop, it showed me a folder with those files. About half of them I had answered OK and the other half I skipped. So it was showing the ones I had skipped. (I think.) It was then that I realized they were part of an extension which I can't even use, but I had installed to try and help someone in a forum. It was some kind of cutting/plotting extension.

So then I realized what it was, and I wasn't worried anymore. But still would have been nice to be able to stop it, if it can be stopped.

Thanks again, brynn

-----Original Message----- From: Maren Hachmann Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 4:42 PM To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] can't stop uninstall for 0.92.0

Am 12.03.2017 um 18:45 schrieb brynn:

Hi Friends, While trying to help someone with a problem in a forum, I needed to uninstall 0.92.0, 64-bit, exe installer on Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit (and then to install 0.92.1). There was something unusual happening during the uninstall that I had not seen before, and I wasn't sure if I was choosing the right options, so I wanted to cancel the uninstall, until I could investigate the unusual things.

- Just wondering, I'm not a Windows user:

I'm not sure I fully understand: did you try to cancel before the actual uninstall process had started, or after?

If after: Does it even make sense to hit 'Cancel' when the deinstallation process has already started and files have been deleted? As far as I understand, this would leave you with a broken installation.

I'd think it would be doing the right thing if it doesn't allow you to stop the process in that case, for the sake of your system's integrity.

(Yeah, I understand that in that case, the availability of those buttons is misleading. Maybe they were a leftover from a previous part of the dialog?)

Regards, Maren

    But I found there was no way to.  Both the Cancel button and Back

button, as well as the X Close Window button (top-right corner) are all grayed out the whole time. I even tried Alt + F4, to kill the window. It did kill the Programs and Features window, but not the uninstall dialog. Before I could get out the Task Manager to try and kill the process, the uninstall was finished. Even then, the only available button was Finish. Cancel and Back were still grayed out, as well as the X Close button. Tried Alt + F4 again, but there was no way out of this uninstall. Later, eventually I figured out what caused the unusual things that I saw, and realized they were not a problem after all. But I still think it should be possible to stop the uninstall, just like you can stop the installation process. Searching LP did not turn up any previous report, although as usual, sometimes I don't find the right search words, or I don't recognize technical language, or sometimes the report is buried under a title that doesn't predict it would be there. So should this need a bug report? Or is there some reason why the uninstallation can't be stopped?

Thank you very much :-) brynn

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