How to revert uninstall on cancel?

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If a user starts uninstallation of application. but while uninstallation, if he presses cancel button, it shows a popup for yes/no, if the user takes a time to input, installation completes. I want to stop uninstallation. but in my case uninstallation completes.
Does anyone have any idea how can I implement it?

What I have tried:

I am showing a pop up on cancel click. But I don't why it is not stopping uninstallation.

Posted 20-Jun-16 20:48pm

dheeraj Jha

Updated 21-Jun-16 3:43am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 21-Jun-16 2:52am

Normal MSI does it automatically. What installation toolkit do you use?
—SA

dheeraj Jha 21-Jun-16 3:11am

WIX

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 21-Jun-16 3:36am

Very, very good. I've used it not very long time ago; it creates MSI which does it all automatically.
—SA

dheeraj Jha 21-Jun-16 4:39am

Actually, prob is, On click 'cancel' I am asking for confirmation "Yes/No". If the user inputs immediately, It is working as expected.
But if the user waits for 3-4 min and then input Yes. It uninstalls by the time.

My expectation is, it should wait till user input.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 21-Jun-16 9:28am

Sorry, never heard of such things. It's even hard to believe. I never had problems with cancellation of installation.
—SA

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KarstenK · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-21T03:42:00

The normal use case of an installation/deinstallation is to install/deinstall the full package and avoid a crappy state. Thats why the user gets asked and than will performed all steps. That also results in a clean and defined state of the app and the computer. That is a very important issue - so you better not change it.

If you want to tweak it my only idea is after the deinstallation call the installation again. But I wont do it, beause it confuses.

Normally the user knows how to reinstall the software by installing it again ;-)