Uninstall Method
Uninstalls the class's system driver.
Syntax
public boolean uninstall(String cabFileName, String productGUID, String installedPath, int flags);
Remarks
This method is used to uninstall the class's system driver. If the system must be rebooted to complete the uninstallation process, this method returns true; otherwise, it returns false.
Important: To upgrade the class's driver, just use the Install method, do not uninstall it first!
Please refer to the Driver Installation topic for more information.
The same values must be passed for the CabFileName, ProductGUID, and InstalledPath parameters as were passed when Install was called; please refer to its documentation for more information.
Flags specifies which versions of the class's system driver should be uninstalled, and should be set by OR'ing together one or more of the following values:
| UNINSTALL_VERSION_PREVIOUS | 0x00000001 | Uninstall modules from previous product versions. |
| UNINSTALL_VERSION_CURRENT | 0x00000002 | Uninstall modules from the current product version. |
| UNINSTALL_VERSION_ALL | 0x00000003 | Uninstall modules from all product versions. |
This method is available in both the class API and the Installer DLL included with the product; please refer to the Driver Installation topic for more information about the latter.
This method requires administrative rights to execute successfully. If the user account of the process that calls this method doesn't have such rights, the call will fail with an ERROR_PRIVILEGE_NOT_HELD (0x0522) error.
Note: This method cannot be called within events.