Advanced Uninstaller is more than an application manager. With the capacity to soup up your Registry and spruce up your Start menu, this powerful organizer unclutters your PC. No matter how tidy a person you consider yourself to be or how vigilant you are at keeping your personal effects in good shape, it is likely that your PC is in a much less organized state.
You may believe your desktop to be a haven of tranquility, with its handful of icons all lined up neatly with the carefully-selected wallpaper background, but there is likely to be all manner of mayhem going on behind the scenes. You may be ever so careful about the programs you choose to download from the Web, but unless you have your firewall cranked right up, a few things may have side-stepped your vigilant eye and could be causing your machine to perform at a less than optimum pace. Every time you open a Web site, suspicious characters such as pop-ups, cookies and temporary files invite themselves onto your machine and take up a shadowy residence in the hope that you don't have the software or curiosity to chase them out.
Besides these more shady sorts are endless amounts of unused or expired program files, plug-ins, URL records and History records loitering about after your last time on the Web. In this tutorial, we're going to introduce you to Advanced Uninstaller – a system management application that helps you complete a range of standard computer cleansing tasks, wrapped up in one free download.
If you want to tackle the number of cookies installed on your system, give your computer a good defragment and generally spring-clean your startup application list. Advanced Uninstaller will prove to be a delight. It's a flexible, easy-to-use program geared to tackling these important tasks and a whole lot more besides, to make sure your system is running as efficiently as possible. It will pretty much guarantee that you'll receive no nasty surprises when innocently demanding your machine to perform another task. All of the program’s operations are aided by a very friendly wizard, who guides you through your chosen cleaning procedure, and the functions are all completed with a simple drag and drop.
So rather than wondering why your PC is running so sluggishly, just load up Advanced Uninstaller PRO, an easy to use suite for uninstalling applications and keeping your computer clean, fast and in its best shape. All features of Advanced Uninstaller PRO are designed to be both safe and easy to use.
You can easily uninstall programs by selecting the application from a list, or by dragging and dropping a file or shortcut on the Advanced Uninstaller PRO desktop icon.
The Startup Manager gives you control over the programs that are automatically started by Windows, and offers you detailed information about each one of them, including advice about what the program does and whether you should disable it or not. Advanced Uninstaller PRO includes a huge knowledge base containing startup program descriptions.
This new release contains a powerful registry cleaner, defragmenter and optimizer which will help you keep your registry fast, clean and easily accessible by all programs. A registry backup utility is also included.
The Quick Cleaner will allow you to perform a one step clean-up of your computer and to protect your privacy. It can safely delete the Internet visited pages history, the web addresses you typed, the Internet cookies and also the recently open files list for more than 100 applications, including Microsoft Office, Windows Media Player, ICQ, MSN, WinZip, RealPlayer, Kazaa, WinAmp, etc.
Advanced Uninstaller PRO also enables you to remove all not working Start Menu shortcuts, to hide and show them at your will and to alphabetically sort the entire Start Menu.
Some other important functions of Advanced Uninstaller PRO are: finding and deleting garbage and temporary files left behind by Windows, Internet Explorer and other applications, detailed Internet Explorer configuration by enabling or disabling its toolbars, plug-ins and BHOs, a nice and powerful font manager, a Control Panel manager and many, many more.
Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a suite which contains several tools and utilities. A very important tool offered by Advanced Uninstaller PRO is the Installation Monitor.
This tool can watch a program's installation, create an installation log containing information about everything that the setup of the program has done, and then later completely uninstall the program.
The installation monitor can monitor an application's installation and create an installation log. The installation log for the application will contain detailed information about all the additions and modifications that the application's installation (also called the application's setup) did to your system, including:
application files and folders added by the installation on your hard-disk
entries added to your registry
shortcuts added to your Start Menu and Desktop
files and folders that the application has renamed
INI files
etc.
The installation monitor can carefully watch an application's installation, and record all the changes it made to your system in an installation log. The installation log is stored in a file on your hard-disk.
Using that installation log you can later uninstall the application using Advanced Uninstaller PRO. This has several big advantages over the installation routines that are built into the programs you install, which appear in the Add or Remove Programs applet in your Control Panel:
You will be able to uninstall a program even if the program's uninstall routine doesn't work. How many times did you install a program, and later you found out that you couldn't uninstall it? If you monitor programs installation using our installation monitor, this problem will be gone for good!
When uninstalling a program with our installation monitor, that program will be completely gone from your system. No garbage entries will be left behind in your registry or on your disk after an uninstall. There will be no more dead shortcuts. This will happen because the installation log for an application contains information about all and every modification that a program has done to your system when you installed it. Because of this, our installation monitor is able to completely uninstall a program from your computer, leaving no debris behind.
As a result, if you properly use the installation monitor to install and uninstall software, your system will run faster, better and with fewer errors than before.
While using the installation monitor you can always press the F1 key or the Help button in order to see the built-in online help which accurately describes every function, window and control in the installation monitor.
Here is a complete, step by step manual about how to use the installation monitor:
How to monitor an application's installation ... learn how to install a program while the installation monitor watches the installation and records an install log.
What to do during installation monitoring ... important rules to follow in order to get an accurate, precise install log that you can later use to completely uninstall an application.
How to uninstall an application that you have monitored ... use the install log you have created in order to completely kick an application off your computer.
How to restore an application that you have uninstalled ... our installation monitor has some safety features. One of the most important is the ability to backup an application before uninstalling.. so if you want the application back, or if things don't go well after uninstalling, you can just restore the application from the backup, even if you don't have the original setup file that you used to install it.
Installation monitor settings ... all the things you can configure which affect the installation monitor.
Safety features in the installation monitor ... describes some of the safety features built into the installation monitor.
The Advanced Uninstaller PRO Installation Monitor can fully uninstall a program if you have monitored the program's installation and have saved the application's installation log created during monitoring. In order to uninstall an application for which you have an install log please right click on the System Tray icon and choose the Uninstall an application you have monitored menu item.
The uninstall wizard will appear. The steps of the wizard are:
Select an application to uninstall - in this step the Installation Monitor shows you the list of applications for which you have installation logs, and you can choose the application to uninstall.
Select uninstall options - in this step you choose the uninstall options: perform a full or custom uninstall, backup the application before uninstalling, etc.
The custom uninstall step - this step asks you to select which application items to uninstall and which application items to keep. This step appears only if the custom uninstall option was selected.
The progress step - appears when the program is reading the installation log and is processing the information necessary for showing the custom uninstall step or for uninstalling the program.
The common files step - appears if the uninstaller detects that some of the files it is about to remove are common files which may be used by other applications. If this step appears, we recommend you to unselect all the common files found, in order to be sure that all applications on your computer work properly after uninstalling the application you decided to uninstall.
Running programs - if the program that you are about to uninstall is running on your computer, this step will appear and will enable you to stop the program before uninstalling it.
The uninstall itself - this step removes the files, folders, registry entries, shortcuts, etc.
The final step - informs you about how the uninstall went, and shows how many items (files, folders, shortcuts, registry entries, etc) have been uninstalled.
If you have uninstalled an application using the installation monitor, and if you have checked the backup option in the uninstall options, then you have a backup of the application. You can use this backup to fully restore the application.
Let's say you want to restore an application from a backup created this way. Please right click on the installation monitor system tray icon to access the system tray menu:
In this menu, please select Restore an application from backup.
The restore wizard will appear. This wizard has the following steps:
Select backup - shows you the list of available backups. You can select a backup and press the Next button to restore it.
Restore options - in this step of the wizard you choose restore options such as: full or custom restore, whether to delete the backup after the restore, etc.
The custom restore step - shows you a list of items (files, folders, shortcuts, registry entries, INI file entries, etc) that are about to be restored and allows you to specify exactly which items you want to restore. This step only appears if you check the custom restore option in the Restore options step.
The progress step - this step appears when the restore wizard is reading the backup file and preparing to restore the application. It shows you progress information.
The restore step - performs the restore. That is, it extracts the files, folders, registry entries, shortcuts, etc, from the backup archive and installs them back on your computer, taking care that they are put back correctly, in the right order, and that everything is ok.
The final step - reports to you about how the restore went and shows you how many items of each type it has restored.
The main safety feature of the installation monitor is that when you uninstall a monitored application, it can create an application backup. This option is available in the select uninstall options step of the uninstall wizard.
If you later discover that you need that application, or that your system has some problems without that application installed, you can restore the application from the backup.
We recommend you to always select the backup file option. After a while, if your system and applications work ok, you can delete the application backup file.
If however you encounter some problems, you can just restore the application from the backup.
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