254708 - Win32 registry not cleaned of older talkback build data

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Talkback Client, defect)

Description

[lohphat]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040805
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040805

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\FullCircle\TalkBack]

Contains an entry on my machine for every nightly build installed since 2004041408.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run "Regedit"
2. Look at [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\FullCircle\TalkBack]
3. Look at all the entries.
4. Have a beer.

Actual Results:  
Saw lots-o-entries.

Expected Results:  
Only an entry for the current build.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

Confirming on WinNT4.0. > 100 entries since 1.0.

Comment 2

[Jay Patel [:jay]]

This is a known issue.  Reassigning to Shiva...who will know more about the
problem and any possible fixes.

Comment 3

[Sean Su]

The problem here might be that the installer did not create the said talkback
registry keys, so it does not know it needs to be cleaned up at uninstall.

It can be easily logged so that during uninstall, it'll get cleaned up.

However, this should only be done if it is truly no longer needed.

Comment 4

[earthsound]

is this a feature or bug? :) 

just wondering if we're keeping this as is or going to remove older registry entries like we do for old TB files (bug 311717)

Comment 5

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Talkback isn't used anymore:
R.Invalid now.