Remove A Program That Lacks An Uninstaller

#1 PCWorld

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Posted 28 May 2012 - 06:56 AM

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#2 MLStrand56

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Posted 30 May 2012 - 06:14 PM

What? No mention of REVO UNINSTALLER!

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#3 briandj06

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Posted 31 May 2012 - 07:21 AM

Or better, use a Mac and simply drop the application icon you want to remove in the Trash. If you are really serious about keeping you system clean, you can use something like AppZapper or AppCleaner just to locate a few support files and delete them together with the main application package.

That's all, no need to reboot, safe modes, registry issues. It is crazy to be compelled to all this fuss just to delete an application.

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 09:50 AM

briandj06, on 31 May 2012 - 07:21 AM, said:

It's so good to see a Mac user concerned enough to read and troll Windows forums.
Thank you so much for your really thoughtful insight. You have opened my eyes! I'm totally throwing my evil, evil $900 PC to buy a $2000 mac in order to be able to run the same games and programs that my PC does.
What could PC users do without sensible mac fanboys like you to show us the way?
St. Jobs is so proud of you!

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 10:14 AM

Even Revo Uninstaller will not work with some apps, but I have been using a free app called Zsoft Uninstaller, which does work. When you open Zsoft, it has a "tool' menu which gives you the option to "uninstall external application". You browse to, and choose the application's execute file (.exe) and it does the job. Hope this helps.

#6 jazzy007

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 07:56 PM

briandj06, on 31 May 2012 - 07:21 AM, said:

Quite true. Since there is only 6 program for Mac there is no problem in removing one of the the program (I am being sarcastic). Now for Windows, there are 100's are program and some of them the programer did not wanted to have his program deleted. Reason for being so creative in finding a way to delete a program. Alas, Windows allow to do all this creative things that Apple does not.

#7 TomKoczon

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Posted 02 June 2012 - 02:21 PM

Don't forget if you just delete the Program Files folder you may get a file in use error. The program "Unlocker" will help greatly with this problem.

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Posted 02 June 2012 - 10:21 PM

MLStrand56, on 30 May 2012 - 06:14 PM, said:

What? No mention of REVO UNINSTALLER!

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While I use Revo Uninstaller all the time, I have run across an occasional application that does not show up in the list. If Revo doesn't know about it, it can't uninstall it. The nicest thing about Revo, I can do a "deep scan and delete" of registry entries, which most unistallers (and registry cleaners) miss - INCLUDING Windows uninstall program.