I have a working install that take 15 seconds to install, but takes 2 minutes and 50 seconds to uninstall. Is this normal and what can I do to speed this up?

It's what I suspected. I don't know why, but an uninstall of the VC++ files from a merge module is slow. If you search on "sxsdelca slow uninstall" you'll find several complaints, but I haven't seen an answer.

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Phil Wilson

Using certain VC++ 2005 (maybe 2008) merge modules have been seen to make uninstalls slow. Otherwise, system restore might have something to do with it. You might have an uninstall custom action that's slow.

Doing a command line msiexec /x {your productcode guid} /l*v <path to a text file> will create a log containing times, so you may see some times that indicate where it's slow.

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Phil Wilson

Hi
I uninstalled as you suggested and got a 23 MB text files. The first three seconds i could tell corresponded to the UI screens. After that the were mega bytes of

1: sxsdelca 2: traceop 3: 748 4: 0
1: scavenge 2: {433DFAE1-078A-430E-9991-B6A9DB36BCFA} 3: {63E93C5B-0CF2-5C40-C01F-C8B3B9A1E18E} 4: {01F2F6FC-5917-4705-8D2E-49DA5B658B35} 5: -1
1: sxsdelca 2: traceop 3: 748 4: 0
1: scavenge 2: {1F475217-27E7-4C80-8C46-FF89ABB0962D} 3: {63E93C5B-0CF2-5C40-C01F-C8B3B9A1E18E} 4: {01F2F6FC-5917-4705-8D2E-49DA5B658B35} 5: -1
1: sxsdelca 2: traceop 3: 748 4: 0
1: scavenge 2: {90120000-0020-0409-0000-0000000FF1CE} 3: {63E93C5B-0CF2-5C40-C01F-C8B3B9A1E18E} 4: {01F2F6FC-5917-4705-8D2E-49DA5B658B35} 5: 3
1: sxsdelca 2: traceop 3: 1193 4: 0

Do you know what this means and can you point me to documentation on uninstaller logs?

It's what I suspected. I don't know why, but an uninstall of the VC++ files from a merge module is slow. If you search on "sxsdelca slow uninstall" you'll find several complaints, but I haven't seen an answer.

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Phil Wilson