#1456 : Fix uninstall via windows settings bug

[KarimALotfy]

This PR fixes the Windows uninstall flow for IDEasy when uninstalling from Apps/Installed apps.

This PR fixes #1456

Implemented changes:

• The MSI uninstall action now runs from the installed folder and logs correctly, and the CLI uninstall no longer fails when cleaning up on Windows because it now uses the actual bash.exe path instead of the bare bash command. This resolved a failure during uninstall from Apps.

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[hohwille]

@KarimALotfy thanks for your PR. You properly analysed and fixed the problem. 👍
Indeed on Windows the bash is typically not on the PATH variable and that could have caused the error.
Also you now follow the same approach as we do in the install step and this makes it also more robust.
E.g. if the user manually deleted the log directory this would have caused the uninstall to fail.

Could you please add the issue to our CHANGELOG for the currently release (see DoD)?

BTW: since we are using single quotes to embed the script logic into XML you do not have to escape double quotes with ". However, nothing is wrong with that. This escaping only makes it even uglier to read - stupid idea actually to use XML syntax for such things since this && encoded as && cannot be prevented and all this makes it hard to maintain. I guess you already had your personal fun editing this file and testing the results.
Great job that you made it!

[hohwille]

now ready for merge.

[AdemZarrouki]

teted on windows with 2026.05.001-20260527.032443-21

Installed msi
with http://central.sonatype.com/repository/maven-snapshots/com/devonfw/tools/IDEasy/ide-cli/2026.05.001-SNAPSHOT/ide-cli-2026.05.001-20260527.032443-21-windows-x64.msi

after installation i uninstalled it via Windows settings > apps. This reported success and from the apps the entry IDEasy had disappeared.

$ ide -v
bash: ide: command not found