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davexnetzerotwo@hooya!.com says...
> I've used this approach many times myself, but it's use is
> very limited. I've found it useful when I can install something,
> evaluate it, and uninstall / system restore in a period of
> no more than perhaps a week at most.
> Beyond that, you'll probably inadvertantly uninstall something
> you didn't intend.
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That's about how I would expect things to go. In the particular case
now facing me, I'm about to uninstall the Lotus office suite and then do
a reinstall of a (much) later version. Since it's the same product set,
it's occurred to me that this might be a special case where using the
System Restore approach is really unnecessary. On the other hand, I
guess it can't hurt anything.
As for your point about "inadvertantly uninstall[ing] something" else, I
know what you mean. But I've kept pretty good track of what I've done
in the intervening time. And in fact, the only thing I've done is
install some ATM fonts. So, just to be on the safe side, I may delete
those before doing the rest of the work, and then reinstall them after
I've completed the reinstallation of SmartSuite.
> I've found if I keep it very limited this way, it's useful.
> Just Add/Removing programs very often leaves a bunch of dead stuff
> in the registry.
Thanks for the corroboration... that's been my experience too. And I
really like the idea of trying to keep the Registry clean.
> There's a piece of freeware called total uninstall
> http://www.geocities.com/ggmartau/
> That's worth checking out.
Thanks for the tip. I already have similar shareware (meaning I had to
pay for it after an initial trial period) which I used on my Win'95
system. Perhaps I should start thinking about dusting it off (i.e.,
upgrading to the latest release) and being prepared to use it on my new
(XP-Home) system.
Anyway, thanks again for your help.
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