problem re-installing cw 10.1

[stav]

I installed cw 10.1 and the patches but I could not get rid of one of the build error messages I had asking to install a CW patch. (Environment is win7 -64 targeting kinetis chips btw).

I uninstalled the cw eclipse environent, including the .eclipse user directory.

When I tried to re-install it went through the motions, but when i tried to run it it refused, just saying :"an error has occurred. se the logfile in c:\users\..\.metadata\.log 

this file (attached) has a long sob story about things it could not resolve, among other complaints.

I tried again, attemting to remove any trace of the previous program to allow a completely clean install, but no luck.

my guess is there must be some junk left in the registry that is causing trouble.

Any ideas how to get out of this mess and install the thing again?

thanks

[stav · Accepted solution]

Ok for the benefit of the next guy who has this problem, here is the solution:

on Win 7 if the program cannot write to a protected directory (eg programs\...), it will set up a ghost directory which it

will use instead uder the current user's name in the users directory under ...\virtualstore\etc .

It did not help that I had admin rights. This was messing up the re-install, until I erased it manually. The uninstall does not handle it.