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Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: Time to Uninstall Your Uninstaller

One of your New Year’s resolutions should be to clean up not just your act, but also your computer. In prior Tech Tips I’ve talked about physical maintenance, file maintenance and hard drive maintenance, so this blog is about removing those programs you no longer use. Every flavor of Windows® comes with an uninstall program. It’s located in the Control Panel with the name Add or Remove Programs. Just about every peripheral device (printers, wireless cards, etc.) comes with associated software and, like most other programs, often has its own uninstall routine that usually works pretty well. My problem with the Windows uninstaller is that it runs slowly and Add or Remove doesn’t reflect everything installed on your computer. Plus, just about every uninstaller tends to leave odd bits, files and folders on your computer and in your Windows Registry, which over time can affect performance.

For 2012 I’m putting an end to that by offering you a great freeware uninstaller called Revo Uninstaller (you’ll find the download button at the bottom of the page). Revo is a simple-to-use program that locates all the programs installed on your computer the first time you run it. It opens in a new window and can display those pesky programs by icon, name or both. To uninstall a program, you simply select it in the Revo window and click uninstall. Once the uninstall begins, Revo offers some cool advanced tools that also allow you to clean out the Registry as well as ancillary files and folders. It helped me find some old Blackberry®-related files as well as some long-forgotten programs that I’ve never used. Now I can recover that disk space and fill it with more Tech Tips!

There’s a lot more to Revo than just the uninstaller, far too much for a simple Tech Tip, but I can heartily recommend it. I’m happy with the freeware version, but if you’ve got extra Christmas cash you can buy the Pro version (I didn’t). Start 2012 with Revo and you’ll never use Add or Remove Programs again.

Keep on techin’,

Tom

P.S. Comment and share your favorite freeware programs!

2 thoughts on “Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: Time to Uninstall Your Uninstaller

  1. Although this isn’t a “comment” on freeware, I just wanted to express my appreciation to Tom for taking the time out of his very busy schedule to share his technical expertise with all CLNC® consultants so faithfully throughout the entire year!

    Thanks Tom! Also “Happy New Year” to you and Vickie as well as the entire CLNC® “family”!

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