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Hi Dimitri,
that's actually good news, as it suggests that what we are doing is ok. As I said, it is the first time I see this strange behaviour and the fact you can't reproduce the issue means that the procedure is correct.
Now, a couple of things. First: when I talk about de-registration, I do not search the entire registry. We know some rubbish will remain and to be honest I never bothered manually cleaning the registry. I prefer some dead keys to a non-booting machine. I only check:
HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Appx\AppxAllUserStore\Applications\
which is the hive from which I get the name of the package I feed to RemoveAppxPackage.
Second, and more interesting. Two hours after removing the app, the Event Viewer shows an additional log entry stating that the orphaned package is now sheduled for removal. The removal will take place upon login of the user withSID S-1-5-21-bla-bla-bla-1000
. Typing:
reveals that... that user account is mine! Interesting: I made two clean reboot after uninstalling the app, but clearly the scheduled removal doesn't work because the folder is still sitting there.Code:wmic useraccount get name,sid
I want to try something else. I'll keep you posted.
Cheers,
Mark