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NET Framework cleanup tool change history

The current build was created on November 11, 2013
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Change history
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December 3, 2007 - Created history file; no changes made prior to creation
of this file will be tracked.
December 4, 2007 - Added additional cleanup tasks for all versions of the .NE
T
Framework on Tablet PC / Media Center, all versions of the
.NET Framework on Windows Server 2003 and all versions of
the
.NET Framework on Windows Vista / Windows Server 2008.
January 23, 2008 - Added additional registry values to remove .NET Framework
1.0
and 1.1 hotfixes that were previously being left behind.
January 29, 2008 - Added product codes for .NET Framework 2.0 SP1, 3.0 SP1 an
d 3.5
RTM versions. Added some 3.0 and 3.5 directories that wer
e
previously being left behind on the system.
February 4, 2008 - Added back the cleanup tasks that were originally added on

December 4, 2007 but were inadvertantly removed.
March 5, 2008 - Fixed a registry deletion problem that can affect 64-bit O
S's.
March 6, 2008 - Fixed an advapi32.dll error on some OS's caused by the pre
vious
fix.
April 30, 2008 - Added .NET Framework 3.0 beta product codes to the list of
items to be removed during .NET Framework 3.0 cleanup.
June 5, 2008 - Fixed issue retrieving the Windows directory on
systems with Terminal Services enabled.
June 6, 2008 - Added a /u switch to allow running in unattended mode (whi
ch
will show the progress page but no other UI and will requi
re
no user interaction).
June 9, 2008 - Disable the readme and log file buttons if the tool is bei
ng
run in unattended mode.
July 22, 2008 - Added logging for .NET Framework version detection. Updat
ed
the tool to allow configuring the window title in cleanup.
ini.
August 14, 2008 - Added support for the .NET Framework 2.0 SP2, .NET Framewo
rk
3.0 SP2 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.
November 26, 2008 - Fixed a logic problem that caused the cleanup tool to not
delete 32-bit registry values on 64-bit versions of Window
s.
December 22, 2008 - Added version string that is added to the log file.
July 24, 2009 - Added logic to correctly cleanup the .NET Framework on
Windows 7.
Added detection and logging for the .NET Framework 4.
Prevent cleanup of mscoree.dll on Vista and higher.
October 27, 2009 - Fixed a removal problem related to VC++ runtime files on W
in9x
and Windows 2000.
October 29, 2009 - Fixed a removal problem related to VC++ runtime files in t
he
%windir%\winsxs directory on some operating systems.
November 30, 2009 - Fixed some problems removing registry values that control
what
products appear in Add/Remove Programs.
December 9, 2009 - Added logic to treat some types of errors as warnings so t
he tool
will not report failure in some specific scenarios. Added
some
new files and registry keys to be removed during .NET Fram
ework
3.0 and 3.5 cleanup steps.
March 17, 2010 - Force the process exit code to get propagated
to the self-extracting setup package.
April 29, 2010 - Added support for cleaning up the .NET Framework 4.
November 16, 2010 - Added logic to clean up .NET Framework 4 font cache servic
e
registration.
December 31, 2010 - Add logic to protect against infinite loops during removal
of
registry keys.
January 17, 2011 - Fixed bug that prevented the .NET Framework 4 from being o
ffered
as a cleanup option on Windows Server 2003 (x86).
August 16, 2011 - Fixed bug that prevented mscoree.dll from being removed on
some
x64 versions of Windows.
October 19, 2011 - Added a command line switch to allow users to force the cl
eanup
of a version of the .NET Framework even if OS conditions n
ormally
would prevent it. This is an intentionally undocumented s
witch
and should only be used in rare cases where the user under
stands
the repercussions.
August 3, 2012 - Added support for cleaning up the .NET Framework 4.5 and f
or running
the cleanup tool on Windows 8.
Updated the build system for the tool to VS 2010.
Prevent the user from typing in their own product names in
drop-down list in the UI.
October 18, 2013 - Added support for cleaning up the .NET Framework 4.5.1.
November 11, 2013 - Fixed a bug with the detection of the .NET Framework 4.5.
1 on
Windows 8.1. Updated tool to allow it to differentiate be
tween
Windows 8 and Windows 8.1.