0000136: Wrong/confusing error message when reinstallation fails

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0000136	Falcon BMS Known Bugs	General	public	2021-03-18 18:16	2021-03-18 18:27

Reporter	airtex2019	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	new	Resolution	open
Platform	PC	OS	Windows	OS Version	Windows 10
Product Version	BMS 4.35 U1

Summary	0000136: Wrong/confusing error message when reinstallation fails
Description	When re-installing BMS the installation fails with the following error message .. it attempts to name the offending registry key but the location is wrong, on x64 systems (which is now all that is supported). This error message should be updated. (Or maybe just get rid of the error condition entirely? It's not clear to me why the existence of this mostly-empty reg key, pointing to a nonexistent filesystem directory, would block installation.. maybe the intent was to avoid accidental overwrite of user config data.. ok. but if the actual filesystem directory it points to doesn't exist, just go ahead with the fresh install.)
Steps To Reproduce	Uninstall, re-install. See attached error message. Look for that key in regedit .. don't find it. Look under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Benchmark Sims Delete that key Re-attempt reinstall Success
Tags	From-Forum, install, registry, uninstall

Theatre of Operations	KTO

Date Modified	Username	Field
2021-03-18 18:16	airtex2019	New Issue
2021-03-18 18:16	airtex2019	File Added: image.png
2021-03-18 18:24	airtex2019	Note Added: 0000402
2021-03-18 18:26	airtex2019	Tag Attached: From-Forum
2021-03-18 18:27	airtex2019	Tag Attached: install
2021-03-18 18:27	airtex2019	Tag Attached: uninstall
2021-03-18 18:27	airtex2019	Tag Attached: registry

airtex2019 2021-03-18 18:16 reporter	image.png (10,209 bytes) image.png (10,209 bytes)

airtex2019 2021-03-18 18:24 reporter ~0000402	Searching for "wow6432node" on the forum generates pages of hits. 6 threads in past 30 days.