[Elecraft] strange question

[Tony Estep]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Guy Olinger K2AV <olinger at bellsouth.net>wrote:

> ...There are registry issues that need to be cleaned up
> that are taken care of in the Win 7 function...

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Right. Uninstalling an executable requires more than just deleting the file.

The Windows uninstaller relies on the installed program to make an info log
of associated .dlls, registry entries, data files, etc. that accompany it,
so they can be cleaned up. However, many programs, especially those written
by hobby programmers, are not too meticulous about their uninstall info.
There are some purpose-built uninstallers (e.g. Revo) that reputedly do a
more thorough job of cleaning up after a program or driver that does not
properly document itself. You can get much more info about this by googling
around on uninstallation, uninstall, etc.

Here's a link to the Revo freeware version, which has a blurb asserting
their claims to doing a better job. I have used it a couple of times and
have no complaints, but can't give any definitive comment.

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,66703-order,4/description.html

Tony KT0NY