How to uninstall R2010 if you had difficulties upgrading from R2010 Beta?

Since R2010, Inventor's installer uses two main MSI files, one for global functionality and one MSI for the language pack. When trying to uninstall R2010 in the Control Panel, Inventor's setup program will try to uninstall both MSI files. In some special situations, Inventor 2010 Beta's language pack MSI does not get uninstalled. The R2010 Beta entry is removed in the Control Panel, but the language pack gets left behind. A typical symptom is the error message "Error 1308. Source file not find" when attempting to install the final release version of R2010 after the incomplete uninstall of a R2010 beta version.

If you have encountered the error above please use the following procedure to completely uninstall R2010.
1. Download and install the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility from Microsoft:

<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301>

2. Launch Windows Installer CleanUp Utility.
3. Remove the two Autodesk Inventor Professional 2010 entries. Delete the folder where Inventor was installed (default is C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2010).
4. Remove the Autodesk shared folder only if Autodesk Inventor was the only product installed (default is C:\Program Files\Common Files\Autodesk Shared).

  
The screenshot shows the situation of a Beta2 installation.
The build numbers on your machine might be different depending on which beta you have installed last.

For Beta 1 the build number is 14.0.1000.16500
For Beta 2 the build number is 14.0.2000.18600
For Beta 3 the build number is 14.0.3000.20100

Comments

[Bob Van der Donck]

The recommended way of uninstalling our products is via Add/remove programs.
The procedure outlined in this article only needs to be used when the Inventor 2010 beta has been installed on the machine and you experience the symptoms as described in this article.
This problem has been corrected when uninstalling 2010 and installing future versions of Inventor.