Originally Posted By: Mac
Originally Posted By: BIABguy
Does BIAB register itself with Windows(XP) and show up in the Add/Remove Programs list?


Band in a Box program itself, BBW.exe, does not write to the Windows Registry and therefore can theoretically run standalone.


OK, so what happens if we want to uninstall BIAB for whatever reason? What is the correct way to do this, so Windows won't mind?

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BUT - it is important to install at least the PGMusic Fonts, PG Plugins and whatever softsynths to your system on the C: drive in order to use those things. They take up very little disk space.


When I installed BIAB there was a window asking if I want to install the Fonts. I checked it off and said yes.
Now BIAB complains that the fonts aren't there.
I did a re-install and just checked off "Install Fonts".
It worked once or twice, but now it can't see the fonts again.

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BB has its own Backups file creation system that makes it possible to revert to the older version, or even revert to several or more versions back if you ever so desire...

...While I cannot say definitively what bb installer doe with all of them, I'm fairly certain that its handling of such .dll files is apropos. Perhaps if there is a newer version of a .dll that bb absolutely needs in order to do whatever, it does install that, but since both files would have the same filename and extension, it would simply overwrite that file.


And if it overwrites the file, how are you able to go back to a previous version of BIAB (it would require the older .dll with the same name)?


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... but if Windows detects an attempt by a proggie to delete a .dll, it too should bring up a window and tell you that the .dll in question may be needed by other programs, I just tell it to keep the file if that happens.


I don't think Windows would do this for a program such as BIAB that hasn't registered itself with Windows.

BIABguy