Revo Uninstaller goes portable

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Revo Uninstaller goes portable

by Brad Linder Nov 29th 2007

We've been waffling back and forth for a while trying to decide which application uninstaller is our favorite. Absolute Uninstaller has a batch uninstaller, while Revo Uninstaller has just about everything else you could need, including a junk file cleaner and autorun file manager.

But Revo Uninstaller might be pulling into the lead with the release of version 1.4. This is the first version that comes in portable or installable versions. In other words, you can download a ZIP file containing Revo Uninstaller, throw it on a flash card and take it from PC to PC, making Revo a killer app for optimizing every PC in your home or office.

Other updates in the latest version include:

New advanced, safe, and moderate modes when scanning for junk files
Added option to start Revo Uninstaller in hunter mode on Windows startup
Added automatic creation of system restore point before uninstalling applicaitons
Faster operation

You can find more updates in the release notes.
[via CyberNet]

Tags: absolute-uninstaller, revo, revo-uninstaller, uninstall, uninstaller

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

GoOrange said 3:18PM on 11-29-2007

Revo has some nice features, like scanning your registry for entries left behind when a program is uninstalled. It's implementation of this particular feature is rather flawed, unfortunately. It's scanning methods are rather primitive (those that entail searching for the uninstalled program's name in your registry) and can frequently turn up non-related registry entries. As such, you need to painstakingly go through each and every entry, file or folder to make sure it's not accidentally deleting something important or something that it shouldn't.

Revo is a nifty tool in concept, but in practice for me, it was more of a headache.

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