Why does the application size in Add or Remove Programs grow every time my application is uninstalled and reinstalled?
This is a WiX MSI installer and every time I uninstall and reinstall it in my virtual machine environment the size listed in Add / Remove Programs increases. That's up to 200MB now that the installed files are just over 30MB. Any idea how this might happen and what I might be doing wrong?
Edit: Don't use any custom actions and I don't have anything to uninstall, just assuming WiX will take care of cleaning up after itself when uninstalling, and it looks like. From what I can see it is the wrong message size, I cannot find duplicate files or anything.
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Can you put your ARP entries? Also, how do you handle RemoveOnuninstall attributes on wix elements?
Do you have CustomActions that write data? You delete this data when you delete ...
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I found this post, then it will explain what your situation is here , and a link to how the arp size is calculated or almost;)
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