Summary

Major upgrade leaves behind 2 entries in the Programs and Feature view.

Symptoms

Major upgrade leaves behind 2 entries in the Programs and Feature view. Some files might not be properly replaced as well.

Part of the requirements to implement major upgrade is not correct.

Possible causes:

Version number must be changed in the first 3 fields. Windows Installer does not recognize the 4th field.
Product code is not changed
Package code is not changed
Major upgrade item is not properly authored. The version number must include the version installed on target machine.

Potential work around could be creating an InstallScript wrapper to uninstall the current version before installing the new version.

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