Vinay Sajip vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Mar 6 23:33:23 CET 2012

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Martin v. Löwis <martin <at> v.loewis.de> writes:

> It most likely is a misconfiguration of your system. I guess that the
> registry key for the DLL has a non-zero refcount before you started the
> installation, so that the refcount didn't drop to zero when you uninstalled.

That must have been it - thanks. I uninstalled, removed the key from the
SharedDLLs (it was still there with a refcount of 1, as per your analysis),
reinstalled and uninstalled - all is well.

I did raise an issue but I'll go and close it now. Thanks for the help.

Regards,

Vinay Sajip

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