How to uninstall a .cab flagged as "nouninstall=1"?

[tcbusch]

Originally Posted by snovvman

It is amazing how many things happen with the registry inside of 30 seconds.

I started 1) File Manager, navigated to express.cab directory,
2) Switched task to launch RegLogger, enabled capture,
3) Switch task to File Manager, lanuch express.cab, wait for "previous version will be uninstalled" dialog
4) Switch task to RegLogger, end capture, save text file.

I did this to minimize the registry activity, but still resulted in over 700K worth of data.

I've begun weeding through it, but have not yet seen anything obvious. There is a lot of certificate entries, but I have yet seen evidence of express looking into a registry for a specificy key or item.

Registry txt file attached below.

Thanks.

I have a couple of suggestions.
Option 1:
Turn off all of your today screen items and temporarily remove all items from your start up group. Then reboot and try the reglogger again.

Option 2:
- Backup your phone, I use SPBBackup.
- Hard reset your phone.
- Export your registry. I use DotFred's Taskmanager. http://www.dotfred.net/TaskMgr.htm
- If you used SpbBackup then I would recommend running another backup.
- Install the program in question.
- Export your registry.
- If you used SpbBackup then I would recommend running another backup.
- Use a registry comparison utility to check the difference between the two registry files. I use Registry Comparison Utility http://www.tonysfreeware.com/download5.htm.

This should give you a good idea what registry keys are modified. If you used SPBBackup then you can use the desktop companion to check if any new files were added that are not in the .cab file.

- Finally, restore the previously created backup to return your phone to a pre-hard reset condition.

I have used this method before and it only takes about 2 minutes to go though the whole process.