Simply right-click on any entry listed in the Application column at the far left, and you’ll get a nice pop-up menu that lets you run the related program’s uninstall utility (if one is available), but that also provides instant access to its install location (via Windows Explorer) and primary Registry key (via regedit). You drive the primary functions of this program through its Uninstaller tab, as shown in the following screen capture. As you would hope, Revo Uninstaller does as good a job of uninstalling itself as it does with other software you give it to clean up after. The program is also relatively small (the download is 1.52 MB) and doesn’t itself impose much on Windows Vista (or XP, either). Simply put: Revo Uninstaller provides a framework within which you can uninstall Windows software, and includes its own follow-up scan and cleanup routines to get rid of anything an uninstall utility leaves behind in its wake. In my personal experience, major offenders “in the clean-up before you say goodbye” category include Symantec/Norton products, AOL, Adobe Acrobat, and others. Some programs are particularly notorious for the amount of litter the leave behind after being uninstalled, including files, directories, Registry entries, shortcuts, and more. ![]() ![]() Pick all three, and you probably won’t.” By that metric, Revo Uninstaller succeeds in delivering a highly improbable hat trick, along with great functionality, good support, and frequent (self-installing) updates.Īnybody who’s installed Windows applications and then decided to uninstall them from a PC knows that some uninstallers work better than others, and that the Programs and Features item in Control Panel (Add/Remove Software in XP) doesn’t always produce the best results. Back when I still did software engineering, one catchphrase I learned that has stuck with me is: “Fast, cheap, and good: Pick any two, and you’ll probably get them.
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