So the one program I actually click on to download in the past two months, and the site just hangs waiting... yes, I've cleared my cache and history, cookies etc...

I have purchased this and been using for several years. I find it very helpful. A caution is that if one installs things without exiting other programs, any changes to the running programs will appear in the captured record. So, exit other programs while doing the install. Also, some quality programs, for example Macrium Reflect, when doing an update, will give a name not associated with the original program name. One must scan through the list of installs and add that rather than putting it in its own folder.

this uninstaller is identical to the Reg Organizer Uninstaller module. this one may be a bit more since it may check for updates of the installed programs. a lot of us don't need that because if you update many of these pgm's of course you have to pay. however, I have installed it anyways and will give it a go.

I have been using 7.15 and believe it works. I have uninstalled a few programs and no issues thus far. i have about 30 other programs tracked. Is the tracking info with the old version utilized by this version? Their website makes no mention of what happens if an upgrade is performed. I would be surprised if the old data was not useful.

Especially when you use the monitoring feature, Soft Organizer Pro may let you reverse more of the changes made when you installed software, but often it won’t get everything. It's up to you if maybe removing a few more leftovers is worth the hassle of using software to monitor installs, and it’s up to you if it’s worth having it running to catch any auto updates that might happen if/when that software can detect any of the common setup routines used for updating software. If you’re running win10, if/when you essentially replace / reinstall the OS every 6 months or so when there’s a version update, lots of accumulated garbage won’t be carried over to the new version anyway [though some will be].

When you install software, it can make all sorts of changes to that copy of Windows. It might add additional software – Microsoft C/C++ runtimes are common – that you’re not told about. It might make lots of changes to the registry – occasionally you might be able to record hundreds of thousands when the Component registry hive is involved – and not all those changes are readily reversable, e.g. when a media player app takes over the file-type associations for every type of media file. If the Windows Installer [.msi setup files] &/or .NET are used, permanent changes are made to each in that copy of Windows. Copies of all or part of the setup files may be added in several folders scattered across your copy of Windows, while Windows defaults, e.g. what files handle what kinds of media, and settings, e.g. Windows Firewall, may be altered. Changes to things like Windows Auto Play & [right click] context menus may be made. There really are no enforced rules when it to installing and uninstalling software.

While Soft Organizer Pro is a step in the right direction, unfortunately there isn’t a great way to keep track of all the changes made when you install a program, and often no way to automatically reverse all those changes. Sysinternals Process Monitor [Microsoft[.]com] will record everything, but filtering out all the data you don’t want is a challenge to say the least, made more difficult because you have to know which changes are due to the software install, and which ones matter. Using before & after snapshots can work, but also has problems… taking a snapshot of all the files on the Windows partition can take an awful long time, while again it’s up to you to decide which changes to files and the registry matter.

Soft Organizer Pro is a compromise that tries to take out most of the guesswork, doesn’t take forever [like a full file snapshot can], and greatly reduces the risk that’s sometimes involved when you reverse changes made. Part of the price you pay for that is Soft Organizer Pro [like every other software uninstaller] will not allow you to undo every change that was made. Marketing claims that Soft Organizer Pro will remove every trace of an app rely on you not knowing that and are inaccurate. Likewise, claims on its web site that Soft Organizer Pro can remove traces [leftovers] from apps it did not monitor during install are overblown – at best it can search for things like registry entries that include an app’s name, which can be a fraction of those entries that were added, while stored copies of all or part of an app’s setup files often do not include the app’s name.

Alternatives… Universal Extractor can often expand an app’s files out of a setup file – like expanding the files in a Zip file – and sometimes that will work to avoid the setup routine and all the changes it may make. If you’re not running win10, the free open source Regshot can track registry and optionally file changes using snapshots – Regshot2 will work in win10, but only records registry changes. I use the free InstallWatch Pro in a win7 32-bit VM – it won’t work in 64-bit Windows & it won’t work in win10. That VM also has very little software installed, because if an app’s setup routine adds a file that’s already there, it won’t be recorded. Installing an app in a VM – or in win10’s Sandbox [when/if that works] – also lets you eliminate installing software that doesn’t do what you want/need. None of this stuff uninstalls anything, but it gives you complete records if you want to try & DIY.

Notes: AFAIK there are no lists of what you can safely remove when it comes to added files or the registry – going over the records from lots of monitored software installations you’ll develop a good sense of what matters & what doesn’t. VMs are a great way to make sure that what you want to remove can be removed safely. A Windows VM is basically a copy of Windows installed on a VHD file, and you can make a backup copy of that VHD file, so if Windows in a VM breaks, you can simply replace [copy / paste] its VHD file and everything is as it was.

Program installed fine.
But when i try to run it, it just quickly flashes in the taskbar and closes immediately, without even showing up.

WinXP SP3

I have used the earlier (not pro) version as an uninstaller and it is excellent. (Other uses I have not tried.)

I have been a user of Revo Uninstaller for many years, and am trying out Soft Organizer for the first time. I've seen that it will uninstall Windows 10 programs that I have no use for, such as the Link to Windows 365, which I do not want since I already have a Windows Office version on my PC. It removed it and it's traces, without affecting my installed Office. I also removed the One Drive applet, since I never use it. So far, I really like it, and will probably get a license, when a new version is released.

Soft Organizer is decent uninstaller which is regularly offered for free in various giveaway sites
it has a feature that can track an installation of a program . useful if you have a habit of regularly (un)installing
softwares

i used this first from a GAOTD a couple of years ago
and so loved it i bought a license

it is way better than Revo (which was my standard)

thank you for such an awesome software

It installed and ran in a very friendly and helpful manner and the manual was good.
I am a little concerned from the comment by johnL currently at #2 of "I tried uninstalled too much stuff and did some harm" and as a result would like to know what steps happen when you click on uninstall. I could not find any help with this. I would expect it to find and run the apps uninstall procedure if there is one or alternatively delete the .exe file then present the user with a list of suggested deletions before going further. If it does other deletions without asking for further user input then I won't be using that function. So if you know please come back and let us know. Thanks in advance.
I noticed that you can run all the way through the install without installing anything and in my case while doing that it managed to trace two registry changes and two changed files so that leads to a further question. If you use it to install and while that is going on do some other work will it say that the other work is part of the install and offer to remove it if you subsequently use uninstall? So one would need to close all other apps while using it?
It is now showing that nothing install as an installed app which is quite interesting - obviously the developer wasn't expecting anyone to do that and maybe I should not have but I like to explore.

Been using this paid for a while. Responsive developer, excellent program.

Phenomenal software program!

I had the older version of this from a previous GiveAway and thought it was excellent for checking on what sort of changes installed programs made. While I did find an uninstall I tried uninstalled too much stuff and did some harm, so wouldn't recommend using it for that, its "traces in the system" analysis is just great IMHO and I'd highly recommend it for that, if it might be of use to you.

Suppose you install an application v1.0.0 while Soft Organizer Pro tracks all the changes. And then, a few weeks later, the application updates automatically from v1.0.0 to 1.0.1. Or the user changes some settings within the application after the first installation. Will an uninstall executed by Soft Organizer Pro remove even those files?