[python-win32] RE: Strange PythonWin IDE crash, now persistent

[Mark Hammond]

> looks like the crash somehow is corrupting the registry.  I
> had sort of
> assumed before that the Uninstall procedure for pywin32 was
> cleaning up its
> own registry entries - maybe a nice thing to add in the future.

It is common for programs to leave behind "user preferences".  Many people
choose to uninstall a previous version before upgrading, and it would be a
pain for this process to remove all your configuration options for
pythonwin.

Ideally, you would be asked at uninstall time - but that is beyond our
installers AFAIK.

Mark.