If I install Minecraft on Windows, I'm probably going to download MinecraftInstaller.msi to my downloads folder, and run it from there, and after installing, I'll probably delete the install package. Say, if I want to uninstall Minecraft a year later, I'll see something like the attached photo.
This presents two problems. I don't know the version number of the installer that I'm being asked for, and even if I did, there's no publically available installer archive that I could find. I effectively cannot uninstall Minecraft without resorting to registry hackery.
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There are a few possible fixes:
1 Start naming every installer file with the version number in the file name, and create and maintain an archive of all such publically released installer files.
2 Download install and uninstall files on the fly (at time of uninstallation, grab sh automagically)
3 develop and maintain a tool that fixes the registry and force uninstalls Minecraft.
4 Ignore this post
I don't think this is an edge case and I'd love to see this problem resolved properly. Thanks team.