Uninstalling certain applications fails because of Ctor.dll

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Matheus
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Uninstalling certain applications fails because of Ctor.dll

Post by Matheus »

I'm having trouble uninstalling certain application with Wine 8.5. I have Thief: Deadly Shadows demo, Deus Ex Invisible War demo and 3DMark 2001 benchmark installed and when I try to uninstall them I get an 'Unable to find the entry point L"LaunchSetup"' error. It seems to be caused by some "Ctor.dll" file.

The full error message is: err:rundll32:wWinMain Unable to find the entry point L"LaunchSetup" in L"C:\\PROG~5P2\\COMM~CP1\\INST~JM1\\engine\\6\\INTE~MEX\\Ctor.dll"

The demos for Thief: Deadly Shadows and Deus Ex Invisible War have .lnk files to uninstall them. Using the lnkinfo command I can see they point to a file in C:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information\{797A228E-B732-47C9-9649-66A43DE7E49C}\setup.exe, but the "InstallShield Installation Information" folder is not there in Program Files, it appears it wasn't created when I installed them for some reason. 3DMark 2001 benchmark doesn't have a .lnk file to uninstall it.

I would greatly appreciate help in uninstalling these applications so I don't have to delete my prefix.
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Re: Uninstalling certain applications fails because of Ctor.dll

Post by jkfloris »

When I install the demo Thief: Deadly Shadows, the uninstall shortcut is indeed incorrect.
However, I can uninstall the demo with: C:\Program Files (x86)\InstallShield Installation Information\{EB3CEC18-A1C4-4909-8FE2-0C30D7A07E32}\setup.exe.
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Re: Uninstalling certain applications fails because of Ctor.dll

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The other two programs can also be uninstalled from C:\Program Files (x86)\InstallShield Installation Information\

{797A228E-B732-47C9-9649-66A43DE7E49C} = Deus Ex - Invisible War Demo - run: setup.exe
{91B323B5-A79C-4D23-BD6D-046C565F9BCF} = MadOnion.com/3DMark2001 SE - run: Setup.exe /remove
{EB3CEC18-A1C4-4909-8FE2-0C30D7A07E32} = Thief - Deadly Shadows Demo - run: setup.exe
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Re: Uninstalling certain applications fails because of Ctor.dll

Post by Matheus »

Thank you very much jkfloris! The folder was indeed in Program Files (x86), I just hadn't seen it. I've now uninstalled the applications to free up space.
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