removed Chromium Portable and Chromium Updater (crupdater) of. This is, of course, a very simplified explanation how these products work. changed Now, we use the Snapshots repository about The Chromium Authors (official) builds. Some don't do anything else, only run the specific uninstall exe of the uninstalled software.īased on my testing, these scans are usually very poorly implemented. registry and files) to find anything that was left behind after the app's own uninstaller was executed. This simply runs the uninstaller of the specific app.Īfter this, some uninstaller products can do some kind of system scan (e.g. Then, when the user chooses to uninstall something, the uninstaller app runs the UninstallerString / QuietUninstallString command line, which is 100% exact the same thing what Windows Settings Programs and Features tool does when you choose to uninstall any of your software. This is typically done by reading the \Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall registry keys and then reading the UninstallString and/or the QuietUninstallString values of each installed apps. ![]() They will first read the list of software that is registered to the system. from 24.95 life-time license Special edition (Uninstall Tool) with extra features. That's literally the basis of how any uninstaller works. Unistallers doesn't just run the unistaller exe of specific apps A great advantage of this small program is that it is portable. That is, how much data is left behind after an uninstallation is completed, which again I believe my software does better than anything else. ![]() In other words, they do the exact same thing that Windows allows you to do via its Programs and Features tool in the Settings.Īnother thing is also do you want to define "the best" by really mean "the best and FREE", or do you mean the best overall, as you imply?ĭisclaimer: I'm the developer of one popular software that includes an uninstaller tool, which, of course, I think is the best by two merits: it can do unattended, batch uninstallation unlike most other tools (Bulk Crap Uninstaller comes close to this ability, but it also fails to uninstall some apps), and secondly is the actual uninstallation performance. In order to have any kind of rational discussion about this, we would first need to define what do you mean by "the best".įor example, the fact of the matter is that most of the so called uninstaller apps do the exact same thing as all the other ones: The list the installed software that are registered to the system, read what is the UninstallString of these programs and allow you to run that via their uninstaller UI.
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