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deleteBinaries XML Element

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DIFx is deprecated. For more information, see DIFx Guidelines.

The deleteBinaries XML element is an empty element that sets the deleteBinaries flag to ON, which configures DPInst to delete binary files from a system that were copied to the system when a driver package was installed.

Element Tag

<deleteBinaries>

XML Attributes

None

Element Information

Parent elements

dpinst

Child elements

None

Data contents

None permitted

Duplicate child elements

None permitted

Remarks

By default, the deleteBinaries flag is set to OFF. To set the deleteBinaries flag to ON, include a deleteBinaries element as a child element of a dpinst element or use the /d DPInst command-line switch.

The following code example demonstrates a deleteBinaries element.

<dpinst>
  ...
   <deleteBinaries/>
  ...
</dpinst>

Note

Starting with Windows 7, the operating system ignores a setting of ON for the deleteBinaries XML element. The binary files, which were copied to a system when a driver package was installed, can no longer be deleted by using DPInst.

See also

dpinst