4C - Win32 MSI Installs

Starting with version 4.8, all Win32 4C installs are packaged as Miscrosoft Windows Installer Packages. There are many advantages to this, including:

You can use Microsoft Group Policy to push updates out to client PCs.
You can use your choice of other desktop management systems to push updates out to client PCs.
You can use 4CUpdate to keep client PCs updated.
It works really well. Install and Uninstall are always completely done or not done at all.
You can use your own installer tools to disasemble/reassemble the 4C msi packages into your own msi packages.

There are a few differences between the old .exe install and the newer

The old install always added HOME_4C/bin/win and HOME_4C/bin to the PATH env variable. This is no longer done nor is it necessary for any client installs. For a 4cserver-win32 install, if you will be running utility commands from the command line, then you will probably want to add HOME_4C/bin to your path.
The old .exe install allowed you to change the install location. The new .msi does not. The reason for this is that it is necessary for all 4cclient/4cserver installations to use the same HOME_4C. If you need to use a different install location than the default, then with no 4c-win32 packages installed, create a system environment variable, HOME_4C, and set it to your preferred install location. It may be necessary to reboot the computer for the env var to be be seen by the installer.

Uninstalling Old 4C Client and 4C Server

Though not absolutely necessary, in the interest of maintaining a cleaner PC, you should uninstall all previous versions of any 4C Server or 4C Client before installing any of the newer MSI packages. This only needs to be done the first time an install is done of the newer msi packages over an older 4C install not using msi. All future msi installs will install fine. No user data is lost by doing the uninstall. The procedure to follow for uninstalling all previous versions is:

If there is a 4C Server installed, stop and remove the 4CServerD service by doing the following:

          run cmd
          cd to the HOME_4C/etc directory
          4csrvrd stop remove

Remove all 4C Clients and 4C Servers using the Control Panel/UninstalProgram
Delete any .shr files in the HOME_4C directory
If there is 4c.cnf file in HOME_4C/etc and that is the XLCONFIG you want to use for 4C Server, mv it to HOME_4C.
Remove any INSTALL.LOG or UNWISE.EXE files left in HOME_4C
Remove all references to HOME_4C/bin and HOME_4C/bin/win from the PATH environment variable.
Remove the registry key "HKLM/Software/4C Software"

If the client being uninstalled is version 4.4.3 or earlier, don't delete this key, or you will lose global connection info that will be converted when you install a later version. If you don't mind reentering connection info for global connections, then go ahead and delete the key. Otherwise, leave it and delete both
```
          HKLM/Software/4C Software/4C Client
           and
          HKLM/Software/4C Software/4C Server
```
after the new install completes:
Reboot and install/configure any of the new 4C Clients and 4C Servers

The only known issues of not uninstalling older 4C Clients and 4C Servers before installing the newer MSI packages are:

ControlPanel/Programs will show the older installed packages, even though they have been replaced by a package with a different name.
Uninstalling an older package after one of the newer ones has been installed will probably make the newer package unusable unless you repair it.
There will be registry keys that are not needed, both in HKLM/Software/4C Software and HKCU/Software/4C Software.