Installation Issues with Receiver While Upgrading OS to Windows 10

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This article is intended for Citrix administrators and technical teams only.Non-admin users must contact their company’s Help Desk/IT support team and can refer to CTX297149 for more information

Users need to upgrade their Receiver for Windows to 4.3 before performing a Windows 10 OS in-place upgrade.

Note: Receiver 4.2 and earlier versions are not supported by Windows 10.

Issue description

If you are using Receiver for Windows prior to 4.3 installed on the machine and try to upgrade from Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, you might not be able to uninstall Receiver through Add/Remove Programs. Upgrade or uninstallation fails.

Scenarios

Non-working Scenario

If a computer with Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 and Receiver for Windows 4.2.100 or earlier is upgraded to Windows 10, users are unable to remove Receiver using the control panel. The following error message is displayed. Upgrading to Receiver for Windows 4.3 also fails.

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Working scenario – 1

  1. Upgrade Receiver for Windows to 4.3.

  2. Upgrade to the computer to Windows 10.

Working scenario – 2

  1. On a computer which does not have Receiver installed, upgrade to Windows 10.

  2. Install Receiver for Windows 4.3

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