How to uninstall Python3.7 in Windows using cmd ?

Barry Scott barry at barrys-emacs.org
Wed Apr 1 16:53:02 EDT 2020



> On 30 Mar 2020, at 02:03, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 07:24:03 -0400, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>
> declaimed the following:
> 
>> To clarify, the pydev/python.org installer does not use msi.  I don't 
>> know that anyone else does.  And if someone did, why do you think it 
>> would also uninstall the current installation?
> 
> 	Because, if you did find an MSI installer, and installed the same
> version /over/ the existing install (same directory), then the MSI
> uninstall would be removing contents from that directory.

And then you will have a registry that knows about 2 installs only one of which you can remove.
This is not a good idea.

Barry



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