Queries about side-by-side comparisons

Poto

I'm curious how well Uninstalr would actually test against Hibit Uninstaller's installation monitoring capabilities?

If a program is installed using Hibit Uninstaller's installation monitoring feature and then uninstalled, how many files are actually left behind?

I would like @jv16 to test this and publicize the results.

jv16

I don't know whether such comparison really makes sense, because very few people are using those installation monitoring features. Less than 1% of any feedback I receive is relating to those, for example, and even that number is biased because most people who talk to me about Uninstalr are already more interested about uninstalling software than the average user.

Poto

jv16

Makes sense. It's not installing monitoring, it's forcing uninstallation

Original description:
Force Uninstall helps you uninstall a program which cannot be uninstalled in a routine way and clean its residual files thoroughly.

I currently use it to uninstall portable software which cannot be recognized in a routine way. So for Uninstallr to support uninstallation of portable software, it needs to compare tests and add benchmarks about portable software

jv16

"Force uninstall" just sounds like marketing talk. Every uninstallation Uninstalr does is a "forced" uninstallation, it doesn't rely on the app's own uninstaller and it always attempts to remove all residual data as well.

Uninstalr already attempts to detect all portable apps, but this is very difficult as portable apps can be just a single executable file stored in almost any directory. The current version's portable software detection is not very good, this will be improved with the next version.

redseujac

Before being able to uninstall a program one has obviously to install it and as jv16 says very few people make use of installation monitoring software to install a program.