Windows 10 pip2.7.exe uninstall fails

[Robin Becker]

........
> A message box is displayed:-
>
> "This app can't run on your PC
> To find a version for your PC, check with the software publisher".
>
> Close the message box and:-
>
> "Access is denied."
>
> Searching hasn't thrown up a single reference to uninstall errors like this, any
> ideas?
>

FWIW on my 64bit windows 7

> C:\tmp>\python27\Scripts\pip.exe install tox
> Downloading/unpacking tox
>   Downloading tox-2.1.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl
> Downloading/unpacking pluggy>=0.3.0,<0.4.0 (from tox)
>   Downloading pluggy-0.3.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl
> Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): virtualenv>=1.11.2 in c:\python27\lib\site-packages\virtualenv
> -1.11.6-py2.7.egg (from tox)
> Downloading/unpacking py>=1.4.17 (from tox)
> Installing collected packages: tox, pluggy, py
> Successfully installed tox pluggy py
> Cleaning up...
>
> C:\tmp>\python27\Scripts\pip.exe uninstall tox
> Uninstalling tox:
>   c:\python27\lib\site-packages\tox-2.1.1.dist-info\description.rst
>   c:\python27\lib\site-packages\tox-2.1.1.dist-info\entry_points.txt
>   c:\python27\lib\site-packages\tox-2.1.1.dist-info\metadata
>   c:\python27\lib\site-packages\tox-2.1.1.dist-info\metadata.json
>   c:\python27\lib\site-packages\tox-2.1.1.dist-info\record
>   c:\python27\lib\site-packages\tox-2.1.1.dist-info\top_level.txt
>   c:\python27\lib\site-packages\tox-2.1.1.dist-info\wheel
>   c:\python27\lib\site-packages\tox\__init__.py
>   c:\python27\lib\site-packages\tox\__init__.pyc
>   c:\python27\lib\site-packages\tox\__main__.py
>   c:\python27\lib\site-packages\tox\__main__.pyc
>   c:\python27\lib\site-packages\tox\_pytestplugin.py
>   c:\python27\lib\site-packages\tox\_pytestplugin.pyc
>   c:\python27\lib\site-packages\tox\_quickstart.py
>   c:\python27\lib\site-packages\tox\_quickstart.pyc
>   c:\python27\lib\site-packages\tox\_verlib.py
>   c:\python27\lib\site-packages\tox\_verlib.pyc
>   c:\python27\lib\site-packages\tox\config.py
>   c:\python27\lib\site-packages\tox\config.pyc
>   c:\python27\lib\site-packages\tox\hookspecs.py
>   c:\python27\lib\site-packages\tox\hookspecs.pyc
>   c:\python27\lib\site-packages\tox\interpreters.py
>   c:\python27\lib\site-packages\tox\interpreters.pyc
>   c:\python27\lib\site-packages\tox\result.py
>   c:\python27\lib\site-packages\tox\result.pyc
>   c:\python27\lib\site-packages\tox\session.py
>   c:\python27\lib\site-packages\tox\session.pyc
>   c:\python27\lib\site-packages\tox\venv.py
>   c:\python27\lib\site-packages\tox\venv.pyc
>   c:\python27\scripts\tox-quickstart.exe
>   c:\python27\scripts\tox.exe
> Proceed (y/n)? y
>   Successfully uninstalled tox
>
> C:\tmp>

so perhaps yours is an exceptional case
-- 
Robin Becker