KBI 310329 Deleted Registry Keys Still Show Products in Setup

Version

All

Date

29 Nov 2012

Summary

“Argent” registry key deleted, but Setup shows all products still installed

Technical Background

On a 64-bit machine the actual registry key used is in the WOW mapping

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Argent is not the actual key

The actual key is: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Argent

Resolution

Delete the WOW key