QTP 11 Clean Uninstall By Sudhakar:
Here are the tips to completely uninstall QTP 11 from your machine. I have followed below steps.
You must follow a specific installation process of QTP in order to clean uninstall.
Installation Process:
- Took a machine that is not installed QTP before
- Backup Registry
- Install Revo Uninstaller (You can use any of the uninstallers)
- This is useful to track the changes of the OS during the installation
- Have QTP 11 Installation disk/image
- Don’t start installation using setup.exe
- First install all prerequisites from
- <Installation Setup Folder>\QuickTest\EN\prerequisites
- <Installation Setup Folder>\QuickTest\Common
- Now open Revo Uninstaller (Open Any of the installed uninstallers)
- Install QTP from Uninstaller and do activate hunter mode (Important)
- hunter mode will track all the changes that are being done by QTP installation
- complete the installation and save the trace file which is generated by Uninstaller (Important)
- This file will be useful at the time of QTP uninstallation
Note: If you have the trace file that will be enough for uninstallation.
Uninstallation Process:
- Open trace file from Uninstaller
- Uninstall using the trace file
- Uninstaller will Remove all traces and some traces will not be deleted automatically if those are linked with any other program.
- In this case it will show you the files/registry that are not deleted. You can select all and delete them.
- There is possibility that some files related to other programs might get deleted
- Run the uninstall program for multiple times using the trace log
- Restart the machine
- Check for windows updates
- In case if you have deleted system files, windows update will recover them.
- By now QTP got completely uninstalled from your machine.
Note:
- After this process you may find some unexpected issues with WIFI, VC++ 2005 runtime components error…etc. You might need to spend time on fixing it. I suggest this method to people who has some knowledge on windows registry mechanism.
- You can find lot of uninstallers in the market. Uninstallers are useful to clean uninstall of a software. Lot of uninstallers are available with some trial period.
- If you have the traced log file, you can uninstall QTP from any machine with the same OS.
- If your friends has the traced log file, you can use it to uninstall from your machine.
- Do not forget to update windows after uninstallation
- This process is only to completely uninstall QTP from a machine.
