Best Unintaller?

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I'm on the MajorGeek site as well as Pricelesswarehome searching for a
great uninstaller for XP. Does anyone have a particular preference and why?

CJ
 
CJ said:
I'm on the MajorGeek site as well as Pricelesswarehome searching for a
great uninstaller for XP. Does anyone have a particular preference and why?
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In order to uninstall a program properly, you have to monitor it during
its installation. There are a couple of programs that do this, but my
favorite is described here:

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/PL2005SYSTEMUTILITIES.php#Install-UninstallTool

(Note that the link may wrap)

You might also want to check out Installspy:

http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub.html

(look on the right hand side of the page in the light blue column)

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http://wistinga.sourceforge.net/safarp/ [Safarp]
From the website..
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"Safarp is a small and fast alternative to the Add or Remove Programs
Control Panel applet of Windows 2000/XP. It displays a list of the
installed programs and allows one to uninstall / repair them.

Additional features are:

* Search function
* Obsolete list entries removal
* Export program list to a file (HTML, RTF, CSV...)
* New report templates can be written to export to other file
formats
* Accessibility via the Control Panel (optional)
* Option to hide the Windows hotfixes
* Standard Windows interface (no fancy UI that slows down the
program)"

It's great. Light and small, with a search function. I love it.
 
Ditto on that.
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Talking of uninstallers, why does TUN want to set itself up
as a startup program ? I seem to have this situation (which
MS AntiSpy stops) which doesn't seem right. Any thoughts ?

Thanks..
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Talking of uninstallers, why does TUN want to set itself up
as a startup program ? I seem to have this situation (which
MS AntiSpy stops) which doesn't seem right. Any thoughts ?
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Perhaps it is doing so in order to track changes made after the reboot
that some programs require after an install.
 
KHaled said:
Talking of uninstallers, why does TUN want to set itself up
as a startup program ? I seem to have this situation (which
MS AntiSpy stops) which doesn't seem right. Any thoughts ?

Thanks..
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I didn't observe this behavior at all on my system. MSConfig doesn't
show it as wanting to start and you can't configure Total Uninstall to
do so in its options either. Maybe you downloaded a tainted version. I
hope not.

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commercial software, crippleware, demoware, nagware, PROmotionware,
shareware, spyware, time-limited software, trialware, viruses or warez
please.
 
venerdì 30 dicembre 2005 Mike S. ha scritto:
Perhaps it is doing so in order to track changes made after the reboot
that some programs require after an install.
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Yes, and it's only temporary, because it deletes that "RunOnce" key on the
second scan.
 
Talking of uninstallers, why does TUN want to set itself up
as a startup program ? I seem to have this situation (which
MS AntiSpy stops) which doesn't seem right. Any thoughts ?

Thanks..
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Have you read the HELP file ?

<quote>
Many install utilities requires that you restart Windows to complete the
process. Don't worry - Total Uninstall will close with Windows and will
restart when the Windows is restarted. Then you can continue to take the
second snapshot.
<endquote>
 
Am 30 Dec 2005 07:12:17 -0800 schrieb TheManifold:
It's great. Light and small, with a search function. I love it.
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Me too. And: it's much faster than any other I tried.
 
Doc said:
Have you read the HELP file ?

<quote>
Many install utilities requires that you restart Windows to complete the
process. Don't worry - Total Uninstall will close with Windows and will
restart when the Windows is restarted. Then you can continue to take the
second snapshot.
<endquote>
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Good point Doc. Although KHaled didn't mention that the startup entry
was during the monitoring of a program's installation, I'd be willing to
bet that this was the case.

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I don't reply to trolls and other such idiots. No adware, cdware,
commercial software, crippleware, demoware, nagware, PROmotionware,
shareware, spyware, time-limited software, trialware, viruses or warez
please.
 
I didn't observe this behavior at all on my system.
MSConfig doesn't show it as wanting to start and you can't
configure Total Uninstall to do so in its options either.
Maybe you downloaded a tainted version. I hope not.
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That occured to me, so I dug up an older version which I know I
got from the source. What actually happens when I refuse is the
program shuts down, but when I start it again it is where I left
off.

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TheManifold said:
http://wistinga.sourceforge.net/safarp/ [Safarp]
From the website..
Click to expand...

"Safarp is a small and fast alternative to the Add or Remove Programs
Control Panel applet of Windows 2000/XP. It displays a list of the
installed programs and allows one to uninstall / repair them.

Additional features are:

* Search function
* Obsolete list entries removal
* Export program list to a file (HTML, RTF, CSV...)
* New report templates can be written to export to other file
formats
* Accessibility via the Control Panel (optional)
* Option to hide the Windows hotfixes
* Standard Windows interface (no fancy UI that slows down the
program)"

It's great. Light and small, with a search function. I love it.
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Thanks for mentioning this program. It's REALLY fast on my Win2k
system and the search function makes it even faster to locate a
program to be removed. Really super program.

Cheers,
Larry
 
John said:
In order to uninstall a program properly, you have to monitor it during
its installation.
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I use Add-Remove pro up to now which works ok. I think it does not
monitor the install process. But it seems logic what you say. At the
same time, this means that using Total Uninstall only makes sense for
programs whose install was monitored - I suppose .. ?

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http://wistinga.sourceforge.net/safarp/ [Safarp]
From the website..
Click to expand...

"Safarp is a small and fast alternative to the Add or Remove Programs
Control Panel applet of Windows 2000/XP. It displays a list of the
installed programs and allows one to uninstall / repair them.
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Downloaded both the full SAFARP and the zip version.
The zip version is reported as 'Invalid or corrupted', but if extracted
regardless reported as 'No files to extract'
If I try to run the full version, I get a 16 bit MSDOS Subsystem box, with
'The NVTDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction CS:06e9 IP:028d
OP:63 73 73 22 20 Close to terminate'
Any ideas??
PS Tried posting to the Forums, but that wouldn't work either :(
Win XP Home, Moz browser.
 
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