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The current installer leaves traces behind #903

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@jrmoore

When uninstalling Dopamine, we're asked if we'd like configuration data and the like to be kept or not, when choosing not to that is deleted correctly; but there are other things that are left behind.

In my case, a copy of the installer was left at "%LocalAppData%\dopamine-updater\installer.exe", a folder at "%UserProfile%\Music\Dopamine" (and a subfolder there named Playlists too), and then several Registry values under Classes that seem to be used to back up the previous file association before Dopamine was installed. For example, at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.flac there is FLAC Files_backup, or at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.m4a, M4A Files_backup.

Ideally, uninstalling the program would take care of it all leaving the system clean. Some things like shader caches or Shell Bags / MRUs are not to be modified explicitly, but I think the ones I mentioned above could be taken care of by the uninstaller.

In my case, the installation folder also remained, but I haven't checked if it was scheduled to be removed at the next reboot, it was left empty: "%ProgramFiles%\Dopamine"

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