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From: Kat Rabun on 19 Apr 2010 19:54
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:16:45 -0300, Shadow wrote:

> Help promote freeware. No beta testers, no new releases. I'm
> testing it, no misshaps so far. WinXP SP3.

Well, neither of the suggested change-tracking freeware is as intuitive as
I'd like it to be. I'm sure with repeated practice, I'll get the hang of
it, but, my first impressions are mixed and have not yet met with success
on WinXP for my intent.

To be fair, I'm not looking for an uninstallation insurance policy. What I
need to do is understand why Thunderbird has so many "user" directories and
where Thunderbird is storing the multitude of files it stores.

So I wanted to run a file-system & registry check - then run Thunderbird
and perhaps read and send and archive and delete mail in more than one
personality - and then run the file-system and registry check to see WHERE
Thunderbird is splashing stuff about.

In my opinion (so far, after only an initial run), Total Uninstall seems to
have a slight edge over the ZSoft Uninstaller but not by much as neither is
intuitive to use (so far). Both are dog slow, with about the same lack of
speed, but I have little to compare with other than my long ago memory of
using the freeware older versions of InCtrl4.

At least Total Uninstall realizes you might not be installing, per se ...
you might just want a list of changes between two timepoints. Neither one
provides much of a report but Total Uninstall gives a nice tree of changes
graphically.

Unfortunately, I couldn't get ANY results out of the ZSoft Uninstaller,
mainly, I think, because it has a single-minded approach that ASSUMES that
you are actually INSTALLING something ... so you can't shut it down (I
think) and start it up at a later time to track in-the-meantime changes.

So, all in all, with only a couple of attempts under my belt, I'd say that
Total Uninstall performs but the ZSoft Uninstaller fails miserably at the
task I subjected it to. (Probably I'll find a way to get ZSoft Uninstaller
to just track changes between two time points.)
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