Uninstall manager?

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Paul B.

My XP system is getting more and more clogged at boot up/down,
and I suspect it's an ever-increasing registry at the root of the
problem.

I install/uninstall quite a bit of software, and I don't believe
all the outdated registry keys are being removed.

I already run things like JV tools, easycleaner, and a few
others, and frankly have not seen much performance increase from
them. What I'm wondering about is if there's a tool that will
monitor what keys are created and will remove them upon uninstall
of a particular program. It may or may not work retroactively,
but it seems it's something I need to start doing.

Thanks,
Paul
 
<extract>What I'm wondering about is if there's a tool that will
monitor what keys are created and will remove them upon uninstall
of a particular program. It may or may not work retroactively,
but it seems it's something I need to start doing.</extract>.

Google for "Total Uninstall".
Get in the habit of monitoring each and every installation with the above.
Then you can remove it all, subsequently.
HTH.
 
Phoenix said:
<extract>What I'm wondering about is if there's a tool that will
monitor what keys are created and will remove them upon uninstall
of a particular program. It may or may not work retroactively,
but it seems it's something I need to start doing.</extract>.

Google for "Total Uninstall".
Get in the habit of monitoring each and every installation with the above.
Then you can remove it all, subsequently.
HTH.
Click to expand...

Thanks, looks like exactly what I had in mind. Wish I had been
using it for the past year or so, but will start now.

Paul
 
My XP system is getting more and more clogged at boot up/down,
and I suspect it's an ever-increasing registry at the root of the
problem.

I install/uninstall quite a bit of software, and I don't believe
all the outdated registry keys are being removed.

I already run things like JV tools, easycleaner, and a few
others, and frankly have not seen much performance increase from
them. What I'm wondering about is if there's a tool that will
monitor what keys are created and will remove them upon uninstall
of a particular program. It may or may not work retroactively,
but it seems it's something I need to start doing.
Click to expand...
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Total Uninstall can help you to monitor any changes that were made to
your system during installation of a new software product. It allow you
to perform a complete uninstall without having to rely on the supplied
uninstall program which may leave files or changes behind.

To use it, you simply launch the installation program from the Total
Uninstall interface and select the system areas to be monitored. The
program will then create a snapshot of your system before it installs
the new software and an additional snapshot after install completes. It
then compares the two snapshots and displays all changes in a graphical
tree view, marking all values and/or files that have been added or
changed. Total Uninstall will save these changes and if you decide to
uninstall the application, it will reverse the changes to the previous
state.

OS: Win95 OSR2, Win98, WinME, WinNT, Win2K, WinXP.

Total Uninstall Version 3 is Shareware:

http://www.martau.com/tu.html

Last Freeware Version: 2.35

http://www.martau.com/tu2_download.php

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Easy uninstaller is a fast, advanced, powerful, and easy to use
replacement for slow, and user unfriendly windows Add/Remove control
panel applet, apart from providing you with a view advantage over
default windows Add/Remove applet, it displays the additional
information with clickable URLs (if available). In addition, it allows
you to perform multiple uninstalls in a row - just check all the
software that you want to remove and the program will automatically
launch the next uninstaller after the previous has finished. This really
comes in handy if you download a lot of software's or use monthly
software CD's which will end up in a lot of unneeded software's you had
tried and want to clean up. It also offers an option to backup your
uninstall list, and to remove items from the list, if they are corrupt.
Easy uninstaller provides a total solution for the uninstalling task.

Main Features Include:
(1) 5-10 times faster than windows Add/Remove applet
(2) Provides function like Uninstall list Backup Manager and Obsolete
key deletion.
(3) Displays detailed information of the application.
(4) Has a very pleasant, easy to use user-interface.
(5) Select many applications and uninstall them in one go (One after
another), very handy for cleaning your computer from unwanted
applications.

http://www.freeware-alternative.uni...nsataller/free-software-easy-uninstaller.html

========================================================================
MyUninstaller v1.32
Alternative to the standard add/remove control panel module
Copyright (c) 2003 - 2005 Nir Sofer

Description
===========
MyUninstaller is an alternative utility to the standard Add/Remove
applet of Windows operating system. It displays the list of all
installed applications, and allows you to uninstall an application,
delete an uninstall entry, and save the list of all installed
applications into a text file or HTML file. MyUninstaller also provides
additional information for most installed applications that the standard
Add/Remove applet doesn't display: product name, company, version,
uninstall string, installation folder and more.

Important Notice
================
When you uninstall a software, MyUninstaller Utility is not directly
responsible to the uninstall process. MyUninstaller simply runs the
uninstall module provided by the software that you want to uninstall.
So, if from some reason the uninstall process fails, you should contact
the author of the software that you want to uninstall, not to the author
of MyUninstaller.

License
=======
This utility is released as freeware for personal and non-commercial
use. You are allowed to freely distribute this utility via floppy disk,
CD-ROM, Internet, or in any other way, as long as you don't charge
anything for this software. If you distribute this utility, you must
include all files in the distribution package, without any modification!

Disclaimer
==========
The software is provided "AS IS" without any warranty, either expressed
or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of
merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The author will
not be liable for any special, incidental, consequential or indirect
damages due to loss of data or any other reason.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/myuninst.html

========================================================================
 
Paul B. said:
My XP system is getting more and more clogged at boot up/down, and I
suspect it's an ever-increasing registry at the root of the problem.

I install/uninstall quite a bit of software, and I don't believe all the
outdated registry keys are being removed.

I already run things like JV tools, easycleaner, and a few others, and
frankly have not seen much performance increase from them. What I'm
wondering about is if there's a tool that will monitor what keys are
created and will remove them upon uninstall of a particular program. It
may or may not work retroactively, but it seems it's something I need to
start doing.
Click to expand...

Total Uninstall is a great program for uninstalling programs that were
installed with it. For your immediate problem, you might want to try
CCleaner http://www.ccleaner.com/ to safely clean up some outstanding issues
with your registry. Also you could use WinPatrol http://winpatrol.com/ to
control what programs are allowed to start up with Windows.

Sometimes spyware, adware or other types of malware might be responsible for
slowing down a computer. Indeed programs that install these things would
probably not uninstall it afterwards. You can check what programs are
installed on your computer with Belarc Advisor
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html . Make regular use of programs like
Spybot Search & Destroy http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html ,
Ad-Aware http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ , and Microsoft's
Windows Anti Spyware (Beta)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx to
remove these nasties. Also recommended is a2 Free (free to use after
registration) http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/ to detect and remove
Trojans and Worms. Of course an anti-virus program is also a necessity these
days.


HTH
 
The said:
Total Uninstall is a great program for uninstalling programs that
were installed with it. For your immediate problem, you might want to
try CCleaner http://www.ccleaner.com/ to safely clean up some
outstanding issues with your registry. Also you could use WinPatrol
http://winpatrol.com/ to control what programs are allowed to start
up with Windows.

Sometimes spyware, adware or other types of malware might be
responsible for slowing down a computer. Indeed programs that install
these things would probably not uninstall it afterwards. You can
check what programs are installed on your computer with Belarc
Advisor http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html . Make regular use
of programs like Spybot Search & Destroy
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html , Ad-Aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ , and Microsoft's
Windows Anti Spyware (Beta)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.msp
x to remove these nasties. Also recommended is a2 Free (free to use
after registration) http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/ to
detect and remove Trojans and Worms. Of course an anti-virus program
is also a necessity these days.


HTH
Click to expand...

Valuable advise, and add to that SpywareBlaster for immunization and
SpywareGuard (although not updated for quite some time still valuable)
and you can stay out of trouble quite nicely. Both programs I mentioned
can be found at http://www.javacoolsoftware.com

Dick
 
Total Uninstall can help you to monitor any changes that were made to
your system during installation of a new software product.
Click to expand...

Good stuff but one caveat. It will suck down your machine post install
(always run the app) when it completes the tracking and pre-install when it
does its initial scan.
 
The said:
Total Uninstall is a great program for uninstalling programs that were
installed with it. For your immediate problem, you might want to try
CCleaner http://www.ccleaner.com/ to safely clean up some outstanding issues
with your registry. Also you could use WinPatrol http://winpatrol.com/ to
control what programs are allowed to start up with Windows.

Sometimes spyware, adware or other types of malware might be responsible for
slowing down a computer. Indeed programs that install these things would
probably not uninstall it afterwards. You can check what programs are
installed on your computer with Belarc Advisor
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html . Make regular use of programs like
Spybot Search & Destroy http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html ,
Ad-Aware http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ , and Microsoft's
Windows Anti Spyware (Beta)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx to
remove these nasties. Also recommended is a2 Free (free to use after
registration) http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/ to detect and remove
Trojans and Worms. Of course an anti-virus program is also a necessity these
days.


HTH
Click to expand...

CCleaner is definitely take no prisoners... Caught some stuff the
others missed. Will see if there's a noticeable difference in
boot time.

Thanks for all the references.

Paul
 
Mel wrote:

Thanks. Total Uninstall is the only one I see that really takes
control of the process rather than merely enhancing the
indigenous one.

Paul
 
<extract>What I'm wondering about is if there's a tool that will
monitor what keys are created and will remove them upon uninstall
of a particular program. It may or may not work retroactively,
but it seems it's something I need to start doing.</extract>.

Google for "Total Uninstall".
Get in the habit of monitoring each and every installation with the above.
Then you can remove it all, subsequently.
HTH.
Click to expand...
When using the free version 2.35 make sure that you specify other
folders if you have more than one drive. e.g. I have c: to f: drives.
I had to specify that I wanted it to monitor d:\;e:\;f:\ in the other
folders box before it would scan any drive other than c:

I am not sure if it scans win.ini etc. as yet. These might need to be
added somehow.

The only other program (Remove-It95{not free}) I have used for this
purpose scanned all drives, registry and .ini files without needing to
be prompted.
 
When using the free version 2.35 make sure that you specify other
folders if you have more than one drive. e.g. I have c: to f: drives.
I had to specify that I wanted it to monitor d:\;e:\;f:\ in the other
folders box before it would scan any drive other than c:
Click to expand...

Where the heck do you do that? I did not see it under Options?
 
I am not sure if it scans win.ini etc. as yet. These might need to be
added somehow.
Click to expand...

No, a major deficiency of totaluninstall is that it does not scan
system.ini, win.ini, config.sys, and autoexec.bat, autoexec.nt etc.
and other files that a program's installer may add lines to. Such
lines can automaticall start programs, device drivers, background
processes, and TSRs when you start windows or start dos boxes.

In principle, I also always wondered if some programs dared to
even install the basic hidden files (e.g., io.sys) of the OS.

totalinstall will report of these files are deleted, if you monitor
the directories where they exist. But it does not report changes inside
these files, or changed files in general (e.g., replacing a dll file with
another version).

One solution to this is a script or batch files that combines
totaluninstall with the PC-mag utility, inctrl5. The latter does
create a report that shows what files have been changed, as well
as what lines are added, deleted or changed in files like win.ini.
You can then try to manually restore these changes, for installers
that monkey with these files.
 
No, a major deficiency of totaluninstall is that it does not scan
system.ini, win.ini, config.sys, and autoexec.bat, autoexec.nt etc.
and other files that a program's installer may add lines to. Such
lines can automaticall start programs, device drivers, background
processes, and TSRs when you start windows or start dos boxes.

In principle, I also always wondered if some programs dared to
even install the basic hidden files (e.g., io.sys) of the OS.

totalinstall will report of these files are deleted, if you monitor
the directories where they exist. But it does not report changes inside
these files, or changed files in general (e.g., replacing a dll file with
another version).

One solution to this is a script or batch files that combines
totaluninstall with the PC-mag utility, inctrl5. The latter does
create a report that shows what files have been changed, as well
as what lines are added, deleted or changed in files like win.ini.
You can then try to manually restore these changes, for installers
that monkey with these files.
Click to expand...

Rather than a script or batch file, you could just run either to
"install" the other, and then install. Neither program cares
whether it monitors an actual install, or just changes made by a
running program. For example -

Use inctrl5 and choose TUN as the program to be installed.
Now TUN is running, install your program.
To uninstall, first use TUN. Then check the incrlr5 log report for
system files changes.
 
Where the heck do you do that? I did not see it under Options?
Click to expand...

It's on the second page. Fill in your installation name and press
next. The box is in the middle of the page under a check box labeled
"Other folders (separated by semicolon)". Unless the check box is
ticked the text box will be grayed out. By putting the root directory
in it seems to automatically scan sub-directories.

It does preserve this information between uses so you should only have
to enter it once. I have not checked it over network drives yet.

The lack of checking for alterations to win.ini or the other system
files is a large drawback in my opinion. I have been used to RemoveIt
(Not Freeware) which does check those files, at least on W95 and W98.
I want to change because of stability problems. I do not run XP.
 
My XP system is getting more and more clogged at boot up/down,
and I suspect it's an ever-increasing registry at the root of the
problem.
Click to expand...

Other ways .

Easy Uninstaller
http://www.sixfiles.com/dbase/system-utilities/system-maintenance/page3/go.php
http://www.all4you.dk/FreewareWorld/links.php?page=8&cat=007
http://www.hp-h.us/p/deepesh/easy_uninstaller/freeware_easy_uninstaller.htm
http://www.freeware-alternative.uni...nsataller/free-software-easy-uninstaller.html

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ZSoft Uninstaller
http://www.zsoft.dk/index.php?goto=software

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If Install is used in Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel when
adding new
programs , it will add it to the Add/Remove list .

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Manually Uninstalling a Program
http://surecool.net/manuninst.htm

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Even when using Add/Remove or unistallers , you will quite often get
the
pop up window , saying
it is a shared file .
I do not remove .
After the uninstall I look in Windows Explorer or Start > Find
Files &
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Folders for folders
that refer to the removed program . Often the name is different to the
Program , so make sure
you write down all the details referring to the program , such the
manufacturer's name etc .
I then delete & run jv16 PowerTools .
jv16 PowerTools 1.3.0.195 , which doesn't expire , is available here:
http://spazioinwind.libero.it/puntocr/dwl/jv16pt_setup.exe
http://down.hengshui.com/download.asp?downid=1&id=726
http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page7.html
http://www.pricelessware.org/thelist/sys.htm
Click on Registry Tool > Tools > Registry Cleaner > Continue
Start .
Click to expand...
When finished , Click on Select > Special select > Items that
should be
safe to remove > Remove.

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t's on the second page. Fill in your installation name and press
next. The box is in the middle of the page under a check box labeled
"Other folders (separated by semicolon)". Unless the check box is
ticked the text box will be grayed out. By putting the root directory
in it seems to automatically scan sub-directories.
Click to expand...

Sure does. Thanks for the heads up, David
 
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