Don’t you hate it when you try to uninstall a program it either does not include an uninstaller or when using Add / Remove Programs in Windows, there are several traces of the software left? It is definitely one of my bigger pet peeves … just check out my iTunes uninstall rant. I came across a cool little program the other day that claims to do a much better job of uninstalling applications and all of the tidbits and left-overs associated with them. Revo Uninstaller.
When first launching Revo the first thing I noticed were all of the additional features not included with Window’s Add / Remove utility.
Here I am going to show the process of uninstalling an unwanted toolbar from a Vista machine. After double clicking the program you want to remove the familiar ‘are you sure’ message will pop up.
Now for the cool part! Revo lets us choose how to uninstall the application using different mode levels. Here I am going to choose the Advanced mode. I don’t want a single trace of this toolbar left of my hard drive. **Keep in mind that if you are on a domain, software information will still be kept in the AppData folder under your profile.**
Progress while scanning including the steps Revo is taking.
This is what I like to see the most … Scanning for leftover information! This is the entire reason I really dig this application.
And here we are, it turns out this toolbar did indeed decide to leave some additional information in the registry. If there were left over files or folders associated with the program it would show those as well.
Revo Uninstaller is available in multiple languages!
Other options you can tweak to your liking. As you can see some features are not available in Vista but I am sure updates will include more features.
This application works on both Windows Vista and XP. Other options include deleting your Internet browsing history, and deleting certain start up programs and services. Oh! And I didn’t even cover Hunter Mode! I must say this is quite an impressive utility! Download Revo Uninstaller.
After writing yesterday’s article about creating a shortcut to the Safely Remove Hardware dialog, a number of readers mentioned to me that they’d like create a shortcut to immediately eject a specific drive, so we’ll cover that here.
I thought I would take a break from Microsoft and cover the much talked about gOS. This is the Operating System included on Wal-Mart’s $199 PC’s. Although there are a lot of Google applications included, gOS is actually based on Ubuntu Linux and stands for GreenOS. This is a very light weight OS
I realize Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 has been reviewed on several locations on the net. However, I would not be doing our loyal reader’s justice without expressing our take on the new browser. So, wanna hear it? Here it go!
Have you ever had the context menus in Windows Explorer just completely disappear? There’s a simple registry hack that can turn the context menus off, which means you could also reverse that hack to re-enable the context menus.
So you’ve been going through Task Manager trying to figure out why so many services are running when you notice there’s two items for Windows Media Player in the list… but you don’t even use Media Player. What’s up with that?
Unhappy with the way the shortcut icons on your desktop look? Here is a quick way to change them to a different icon included in XP.
When you have a problem with your Windows computer, you’ll usually be told to insert the Windows cdrom and then start the Recovery Console in order to fix the issue. So where did you put that XP disc anyway? Why can’t we just install the recovery console to the hard drive?
Have you ever tried to unzip a file to the Program Files directory in Windows 7 or Vista? You’ll get all sorts of permission denied errors, and generally be unsuccessful. So how do we open up the zipfile as an administrator? For that matter, how do you open any file as administrator?
If you’ve ever tried to copy a file that is locked by another application, you’ve probably seen an error message similar to “The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file”. So how do you copy it anyway?
Let me start by saying that I have no idea why anybody would want to do this, and it’s perhaps one of the most useless articles I’ve ever written. That said, if you’ve ever wondered how to remove the username from the Start menu in Windows XP, this article is for you.
