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=== Lumpy Tries to Uninstall ==
After a while, Lumpy gets tired of Minesweeper; he decides to uninstall it. In the control panel, he selects "Add or Remove Programs", and selects Hexagonal Minesweeper. A simple dialog asks "Would you like to remove Minesweeper 1.1? [Remove] [Cancel]". He chooses Remove.
Technical note: the uninstaller doesn't even bother asking Lumpy if he wants to uninstall the xulunner because it sees that Firefox is still installed and using the xulrunner.
Lumpy then looks through his list of programs, because he decides that "cleaning up" is a good idea. He finds an entry "Mozilla XULRunner", says to himself "I never use this", and tries to uninstall it. He is shown the following dialog:
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* Mozilla XULRunner 1.1 is part of the following program:
* Mozilla Firefox 1.2
* If you remove it, this program will not function. Are you sure you want to remove it?
* [*Cancel*] [Remove]
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== Morgan the Microsoft-Lover ==
The XULRunner installer displays a download progress, a license screen and an install-location screen, then returns to the second screen above (install location).
=== Morgan Tries to Uninstall ===
After a while, Morgan finds an even fancier minesweeper that uses Escher tesselations, and she decides to uninstall Hexagonal Minesweeper. In the control panel, she selects "Add or Remove Programs", and selects Hexagonal Minesweeper. A simple dialog asks "Would you like to remove Minesweeper 1.1? [Remove] [Cancel]". She chooses Remove. After a progress meter works for a little while, a second dialog appears:
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* Mozilla XULRunner 1.1 is a shared program which was installed by Hexagonal Minesweeper.
* No registered programs are using XULRunner 1.1. Would you like to remove it?
* [Cancel] [*Remove*]
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Morgan chooses Remove, and all traces of xulrunner 1.1 are removed from the system.
