Benefits of using Revo Uninstaller vs Windows own Uninstaller?

As the title say... Benefits of using Revo Uninstaller vs Windows own Uninstaller?
Is windows programs and Features more than enough?
@Phoenix @Mr. Fox @hmscott

Thanks

 

The answer is very obvious. The normal uninstaller uninstalls the app, 90% of them leave leftovers, so if you are like me and many other smart people who don't want to use a registry cleaner to clean registry errors which often cripples Windows. Then it's best to use an Uninstaller to uninstall apps as that will clean any leftovers remaining, be it file or registry remnants. That way, you only clean stuff related to THAT app rather than running a registry cleaner which even on a clean Windows install will find many registry errors that are not really errors and cleaning them may or may not cripple Windows.

I bought Revo Uninstaller Pro portable and always use it. That way I don't have to buy a license for each PC. Once license for all.

 

@Phoenix has it right, Revo Uninstaller is good

I have used a few uninstallers over time, I check out lots of different tools, I'm using IOBit Uninstaller now, and it does a good job.

 

Thanks... Why buy a license for 5 COMPUTERS to $ 49.05 when the portable costs $ 34.62? Are people idiots???

 

Revo is trying to manipulate people. The portable is all you need

 

That's interesting, I would have thought the 5 computer license allowed me to install on 5 computers simultaneously, while the Portable license could be moved around, but allows installation on only 1 computer at a time.

 

wrong, you can use the portable version on all your computers

 

Silly me, I'm using the completely Free version of IObit Uninstaller
http://www.iobit.com/en/advanceduninstaller.php

 

Mother 1 license, father same, sister same, brother the same and great grandfather also 1 license aka 5 computers... Does this sound more reassuring for people? Than just buy a portable license? LOL

 

Well, to me it looks like they almost double their income from a single license, and how many are really gonna buy 3 or 5 packs, might as well cover all the bases and get the unlimited version.

Well directed customer purchase pricing

 

Here is a recent comparison, with a more recent update of the top 3 uninstallers:

Which program is the most thorough software uninstaller on Windows?
by Martin Brinkmann on April 18, 2015 in Windows - Last Update:April 7, 2016
http://www.ghacks.net/2015/04/18/which-program-is-the-most-thorough-software-uninstaller-on-windows/

 

Yeah...., As they said. < Still, it is interesting to see that there is a huge difference when it comes to leftover files and Registry items found by program uninstallers.>
Not all that glitters is gold

 

YMMV, as the comments to that review show, it's a matter of the sampling of programs tested, current installation, and the state of what you have and have had installed.

A top to bottom monitoring from install to uninstall is the best way of catching everything.

I used Comodo Program Manager at one point for this feature, and it looks like it is still around, another tool to check out:
https://www.comodo.com/home/support-maintenance/programs-manager.php

• Completely delete partial uninstalls

• Detect and remove unwanted junk files

• Monitor all changes in your system

• Manage Windows features easily

• Restore uninstallations safely

"CPM is capable of purging all traces of an application from your computer. It's monitoring functionality keeps track of the changes that are made during the installation and usage of a program. When you uninstall using CPM, it's as though the software was never there in the first place."

 

I've used Revo for approx 2 years, very good program.

@Papusan - check your inbox, don't spend money on the program though

 

Downloaded and will try the 30 days trial version!!

Edit.
@hmscott Is it a good idea to uninstall Nvidia drivers with this tool than have to use DDU? I always use DDU for graphics drivers.

 

I use revo first, then DDU on safe mode just to be sure.

 

You do ask the hard questions

Comodo Program Manager is best used when you make an install after it has been installed and rebooted, so CPM can watch all subsequent installs.

Install CPM first, reboot (it needs that to start monitoring).

Do a safe mode DDU uninstall for the current Nvidia install, and then when you come back into normal mode, with CPM already installed so it can watch the new Nvidia install reinstall the Nvidia drive.

Then later try using CPM to uninstall the Nvidia driver and use DDU to check if CPM missed anything.

I think DDU has a mode to show all the things it would uninstall, so run that after the CMP uninstall of the Nvidia driver installed under CPM - see if DDU catches anything that CPM missed.

I haven't done that for a long time, but I do recall doing just that test myself long ago.

Let us know how it works out

 

Nowadays uninstalling gfx drivers through Control Panel works 70% of the time and then use DDU to remove all remnants from the system and you will feel like a fresh install. DDU author himself says to run DDU directly since it uses the same APIs to remove driver from the system and then delete registry items and driver store eventually clears out any copies of gpu manufacturers files if its locked by windows explorer or any other process.

 

Revo is just used for extra security purposes.

It's fine to just uninstall on windows + use DDU, but I'd like to make sure that everything is nuked when I do a clean GPU driver install

 

I've actually found that using Windows uninstaller first to remove GPU drivers creates more problems than just running DDU straight up.

 

Interesting, I'll try this when I get my replacement 1080.

 

It's very long time since I used windows to uninstall graphics drivers. DDU has always been the preferred. Just see all people on the web who have graphic driver problems duo Nvidia and Windows

 

No problem whatsoever using just MS Windows uninstaller. The problem lies in program that don't follow proper install directions that doesn't create it's own uninstaller. This is the part were missing here in the discussion as well. I also use CClear and it was fine to get hard to find programs that you want to get rid of as well. But over using CC can also cause registry problems as well so it a very good cleaner and uninstaller but one needs to watch their P's and Q's when using it-or have unintended problems as a result.

 

Hey @Mobius 1-> Are you the same from Overclock.net forum?

 

You can force quit/close explorer.exe before a driver uninstall using task manager, File->Open new Task, press enter or click that option, next type in explorer.exe w/o admin privileges and you are good to go.
On w10 explorer locking driver files seems to be non existent.

 

TK421 on ocn

 

Lol, I guess I'm the only one who uses standard Windows Uninstaller here...
(Except for StormJumper)

 

Or I'll just keep doing things my way.

 

Okay.