First off, I don’t use a Mac so I don’t really know what the uninstall process is, however a utility I came across which looks like something our Mac readers might like is AppTrap. Moving an application to the trash is simple and easy. Shouldn’t true uninstallation on the Mac be the same way? With AppTrap, when you move an application to the...

I received a question in the PCMech Premium area that asked if Windows 7 will have an improved Add/Remove that will completely uninstall programs compared to the way XP does it. My answer was an easy no, and I explained why. In this article I go into detail on that. First I’ll say programs that leave crap behind is definitely not a Windows-only thing. On...

As you may have found out, the Add/Remove Programs functionality of Windows sometimes yields dead entries. These entries can be the result of corrupt installs or accidentally deleted files. While there are lots of programs out there which can clean these entries up for you, you can always delete them manually in the registry. You can can find all the Add/Remove...

I recently bought a Sandisk cruzer micro 4GB USB stick and of course it comes with that U3 crapola preloaded on it. Formatting the stick does not get rid of it entirely.  If you click (in Windows XP) Start then Run then type COMPMGMT.MSC, click OK, then click Disk  Management from the window that appears, you’ll notice there are two partitions on...

Situation: You use an app that requires Adobe AIR but decide you don’t want it anymore and uninstall it. The app was easily removed by going to Add/Remove Programs, but AIR is still installed and there appears to be no way to uninstall it. Update: The latest version of AIR does have an Add/Remove entry after installation but older versions do not. If...

I have posted about several uninstall programs and utilities in the past, so why stop now? Uninstalling a Windows program typically removes only the files which were installed during the original install process, and worse yet, sometimes not at all (the infamous “broken” Add/Remove program entry). To help remedy this, another tool you might want to...

Over at UbuntuGeek.com they’ve just released an article that instructs how to remove Compiz Fusion including all the config files. Ubuntu users who read this will most likely ask the following two questions.Why? Compiz is awesome! What advantage does removing the config files do in addition to removing it?In answer to 1: Yes, Compiz is awesome. It...