Windows 10: Windows 10 Needs a Better App Uninstaller, Users Claim

Discus and support Windows 10 Needs a Better App Uninstaller, Users Claim in Windows 10 News to solve the problem; Whether one should or should not do image restoration when cleaning up an un-installation mess or reviving a slow machine is up to the individual. But... Discussion in 'Windows 10 News' started by labeeman, Feb 5, 2015.

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  1. LEHNERUS2000
    lehnerus2000 Win User

    Windows 10 Needs a Better App Uninstaller, Users Claim


    Agreed.

    Just finding decent information often takes much longer than 10 minutes.
    I have often spent hours d***ing around trying to fix something, when I could have just re-imaged the OS partition in a few minutes.
     
    lehnerus2000, Feb 6, 2015
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  2. BUNNYJ
    BunnyJ New Member
    BunnyJ, Feb 6, 2015
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  3. THRASHZONE
    ThrashZone Win User
    I don't believe revo works to well with 64 bit.

    System images are allot better than system restore to an earlier time for sure but not everyone has multiple internal or external drives handy.
     
    ThrashZone, Feb 6, 2015
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  4. BUNNYJ
    BunnyJ New Member

    Windows 10 Needs a Better App Uninstaller, Users Claim

    It's been working fine for me and I'm running the 64bit version of 9926.
     
    BunnyJ, Feb 6, 2015
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  5. WINUSER
    Winuser Win User
    I haven't had any problems running Revo in Win 10 64bit.
     
    Winuser, Feb 6, 2015
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  6. PIGPENZ
    pigpenz Win User
    I have always made restore points and image files, but sometimes you can uninstall a program and it doesn't always get rid of all the files it installed. restore points are only good if you make them for each install of a program and if you overlap you are guessing
     
    pigpenz, Feb 6, 2015
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  7. IGNATZATSONIC
    ignatzatsonic Win User
    I think the free version of Revo runs fine on 64 bit---but the last I heard it would NOT remove 64 bit applications.

    Has that changed?
     
    ignatzatsonic, Feb 7, 2015
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  8. LEHNERUS2000
    lehnerus2000 Win User

    Windows 10 Needs a Better App Uninstaller, Users Claim

    I've had brand new System Restore Points fail. *Sad

    In fact, a couple of weeks ago I created a SRP and then installed some program.
    After testing, I decided that I didn't like the program.
    When I tried to restore my system I received the dreaded SRP failure message.

    I was forced to re-image my OS partiton.
     
    lehnerus2000, Feb 7, 2015
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  9. BLACKCARRERA
    blackcarrera Win User
    I find using custom made refresh images better than imaging and restore points. I create a text file and save them as .cmd. A refresh image will respect bit locker encryption which imaging does not. Using a refresh image has been thus far the best experience, most reliable and quickest way to restore Windows. These are the commands I use.

    recimg -CreateImage D:\Backup\CleanRefreshImage
    pause


    recimg -CreateImage D:\Backup\CustomRefreshImage1
    pause

    recimg -CreateImage D:\Backup\CustomRefreshImage2
    pause

    This will show which refresh image is active and ready for restore.

    recimg -ShowCurrent
    pause

    This will enable F8 on bootup to access the recovery environment from which you can use your refresh image should anything prevent you from booting up.

    bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy
     
    blackcarrera, Feb 7, 2015
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  10. LEE
    Lee Win User
    I've had brand new System Restore Points fail. *Sad

    In fact, a couple of weeks ago I created a SRP and then installed some program.
    After testing, I decided that I didn't like the program.
    When I tried to restore my system I received the dreaded SRP failure message.

    I was forced to re-image my OS partiton. Don't you just hate when that happens. . .*Smile
     
    Lee, Feb 7, 2015
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  11. COKE ROBOT
    Coke Robot Win User
    That's typically reasons why Windows users go to macs.

    "Windows gets too many viruses, so I'm going to use something that doesn't get that many viruses but when it does it completely crashes the whole system! Ugh!"
     
    Coke Robot, Feb 7, 2015
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  12. COKE ROBOT
    Coke Robot Win User
    Windows needs better developers that aren't lazy and leave remnants of code all over the registry and file system and cause uh-ohs left and right. Windows also needs developers to build Universal WinRT apps that are inherently designed to prevent that.
    *Thumbs
     
    Coke Robot, Feb 7, 2015
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  13. FEHERNEOH
    feherneoh Win User

    Windows 10 Needs a Better App Uninstaller, Users Claim

    Totally agree. Pressing "uninstall" in control panel does nothing else than it starts the application's own uninstaller. Windows has nothing to do with this. To prevent these slowdowns, I allways manually remove the uninstalled application's registry keys, and its folders in AppData
     
    feherneoh, Feb 7, 2015
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  14. COUNTMIKE
    CountMike New Member
    Totally agree. Pressing "uninstall" in control panel does nothing else than it starts the application's own uninstaller. Windows has nothing to do with this. To prevent these slowdowns, I allways manually remove the uninstalled application's registry keys, and its folders in AppData Or just use "Revo Uninstaller", there are some other ones too. Cleaning up the mess left after "normal" uninstall can take long time and my be not as efficient, many entries in registry may not go by same name as program that put them in there. Than there are shared .DLLs and other files or folders with names not apparent enough to belong to that program. Other ways to test a program may be in VM or in a "Sandbox".
     
    CountMike, Feb 7, 2015
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  15. ADAMF
    adamf Win User
    *Ditto I don't trust restore points to actually work reliably and images are too big and slow.
     
    adamf, Feb 7, 2015
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