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If you have the pleasure of installing SAS on a Windows server and then trying to uninstall and reinstall it multiple times, you will know that the uninstall process is time consuming and painful.
You have to go through the standard windows add/remove programs process for each SAS component/product, or restore a clean copy of the server image in the pre-install state.
(Now why would you do this multiple times you ask, well often becuase you have mucked up the install or you are trying to install a version of SAS that matches your client to test something for them or you)
SAS have issued a tech note that makes life so much easier:
The wizard assumes a raft of defaults that you will probably need to overide (i.e c:\) but provides parameter options to let you do this.
And of course if you are on Linux/Unix then there is no Windows registry to get in the way, so ignore the tool and just delete the files!
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