How to uninstall Windows Installer Packet?

[MaVeRiCk]

as in title. i gave msn 6 a go, but i needed latest windows installer packet for it. i downloaded and installed it, after that msn6 but i found it shit and removed it. tried to install 4.7 and now it says that it can only run on xp or whatever, the windows installer packet i installed to get msn6 to work are too new. how to uninstall it?

[SuperFLY]

o/s?

[MaVeRiCk]

98se

[gel]

There is no official way to uninstall windows installer. If you're lucky just a reinstall of windows will fix it, if your unlucky a clean install will be needed.

There is a manually way that I read about in usenet, but I really don't advise it:
1. call "msiexec /unregserver"
2. locate the follwoing file within WINSYSDIR and remove/rename them."msi.dll", "msiexec.exe", "msihnd.dll", "msisip.dll"
3. If you can't remove (some of) them, due to usage locks, reboot the system and try again.
4. If rebooting on NT, W2K, XP does not remove the locks, ensure removal of MSI service footprint in the registry.