To the fellow (#132 Roj BloughMeKoVidhch) who complained that Revo does not do anything much beyond the uninstaller .. actually what it does is clear and very helpful .. it finds folders with data files and registry entries that it believes were left over from the install and encourages you to make the final and careful determination before a delete. It isn’t clear above whether Cleanse Uninstaller follows the exact same methodology, which it would be hard to improve upon. I will not install CU because of the file date concern which, if true, would make it somewhere between a bit of a bumbling and incompetent to a rogue program (GAOTD take note). Why in the world it would actually change any dates is the puzzle. It is actually hurting uninstall capabilities by changing dates, which, in a good program, can use the date information to link or separate files as from the same source.

Putting in its own registry entries for each program, as reported, would also be quite a dubious action (and if so, are they found by another uninstaller ? – when uninstalling either the target program or Cleanse Uninstaller itself), totally unnecessary. However that at least does not have the tampering aspect of date changing.

Roj makes a good point that all non-snapshot uninstallers should also be compared on how they handle “forced uninstalls” .. where there is no Add/Remove program available. This is relatively infrequent, but still important.

Remember that a number of programs have their own special uninstall utilities .. remvoal tools. Java has the very excellent independent Javara, McAfee and Norton maybe some other AVs have special programs made by the companies in response to the outcry about the difficulties of an uninstall. I remember the difficulties in the old dates, some years ago, how Zone Alarm would keep a blocking firewall registry entry after its own uninstall .. this is the type of major problem that an uninstaller like Revo will likely find and prevent, since it scans the registry for specific-to-program entries. What I really like about Revo is it does nothing extra, nothing at all, without giving you a good tree-visual and asking you to confirm and act .. or pass by.

Shalom,
Steven Avery

It deleted the following

Compressed (zipped) Folder
Desktop (create shortcut)
Mail Recipient
My Documents

1. Extract the zip to any folder
2. Run setup.exe
3. Install it
4. Run the Program, It’s not registered, so We’ll going to activate it
5. Right click Activate.exe at the folder that you’ve extracted before, then click “Run as Administrator”
6. It’ll activate your software.

It won’t work if you don’t run Activate.exe as administrator..Took me 2 minutes to figure it out lol

I installed Cleanse Uninstaller with Returnil’s protection on.. Yes, I can confirm that Cleanse Uninstaller resets the installation dates of most programs to its own date of installation.. This is an unwelcomed horrifying and unforgivable act of system tampering… I would only accept such unsavory behavior from a class of programs…called… VIRUS… I don’t understand why so many people are installing this and happily giving positive comments…