Registry

[Gene E. Bloch]

In message <[email protected]>, Gene Wirchenko
You install the program using Revo monitoring. It tracks the
changes made during the installation. When you want to uninstall, it
reverses this. There are probably other details I am missing here.
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Ah, so it only does it for things that were installed after it was (and
only if they were done with it watching, though maybe it defaults to
doing so all the time). Thanks for explaining.

Not so.

Revo finds & removes Registry keys even when you don't set it to monitor
installations. I'm not even sure the free version *can* monitor the
installation process.

Maybe in the latter case it would find more, but I have used it without
ever monitoring installations, and it has found and removed plenty of
Registry entries.

How does it know what to remove?

I've also used IObits the same way with similar results.

Maybe these programs do automatically what I have done manually.

To answer your question, read my last sentence above.

Search the registry and hard drive for items related to the program.

Folder names, manufacturer's names, program names, ...

And don't forget that Revo, IObit, and so on have access to, and use,
the same program uninstaller scripts that Windows would use.

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <[email protected]>, Gene E. Bloch

To answer your question, read my last sentence above.

Search the registry and hard drive for items related to the program.

Folder names, manufacturer's names, program names, ...

And don't forget that Revo, IObit, and so on have access to, and use,
the same program uninstaller scripts that Windows would use.

Ah, so it guesses. Probably an informed guess, especially if the
uninstaller script is still there for it to peep at. But I have seen
things add bits to the registry that have little obvious connection to
the prog. or company.