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From: Baron d'Holbach ~1723-1789~ on 4 Oct 2009 10:40 On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:31:12 +0000, Bear Bottoms wrote: > When you install a new program, the installation utility adds new data > to your system registry, often unremoved after the uninstallation. You > can have a record of exactly what the install program did using InCtrl > 4.1, InCtrl 5, System Mechanic, Safe Installer or RegShot. UNDOReg > analyzes the report generated by one of these utilities, and deletes > referenced registry keys" wrote that so many years ago... :) -- "Is it weird in here, or is it just me?"
From: Baron d'Holbach ~1723-1789~ on 4 Oct 2009 10:41 On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:12:11 -0400, LouB wrote: > And how does that report get generated? Regshot just takes a "shot" before and after, then it compares them. -- "Is it weird in here, or is it just me?"
From: Baron d'Holbach ~1723-1789~ on 4 Oct 2009 11:05 On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:06:20 +0100, hummingbird wrote: > If you decide to update your program, I'm sure people here will want to > try it out and see how it compares with the current one many people use: > TotalUninstall. Is TotalUninstall already doing the UNDOReg task (parsing report and cleaning)? If yes, maybe there's no need to update it :) Will check, anyway :) Thanks -- "Is it weird in here, or is it just me?"
From: Poutnik on 4 Oct 2009 11:25 In article <uu2ym.75231$9f6.88646(a)twister1.libero.it>, invalid(a)invalid.invalid says... > I think registry snapshot comparators monitors cannot safely distinguish between changes caused by monitored program, and by other processes or system. Well, many changes are obvious, but some are not. Reverting can have unwanted sideeffects. Interesting idea would be to use Sysinternal ProcMon in conjuction with UNDOreg. Its exported logs could help to determine the registry item change originator. BTW in the past I was a fan of Total uninstall, but I had some sideeefect issues. Also, being 32bit, it is not so interesting for Vista64. -- Poutnik The best depends on how the best is defined.
From: Baron d'Holbach ~1723-1789~ on 4 Oct 2009 11:23
On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:21:49 +0100, hummingbird wrote: > If a new program is installed *thru TU*, it takes a snapshot of the > registry before/after installation and allows uninstallation by deleting > all the entries (as well as files etc). yes, I just checked that. Anyway, it doesn't seem freeware, so it's OT :) > However, the comments by BB are > very relevant to this concept: once a program is used a few times, it > often creates new reg entries (and often other files eg: .ini) which are > not recorded in the TU log and therefore not uninstalled later on. true, that's right > I put this deficiency down to a flaw in the design of the Windows > Registry, not the programs which attempt to monitor what happens when a > new program is installed. right again :) > You will know whether your own program is a duplicate of TU better than > me :-) it's not, definitely. TU is far more advanced ;) I will try to contact RegShot author(s) as well... -- "Is it weird in here, or is it just me?" |