Re: System Restore - but uninstall the undesired program first?

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Colin Barnhorst wrote:
I don't think Grumpy is missing the point.

Yes he is - missing part of it.

The OP is wondering if
everything that gets installed just disappears if you restore back before
the installation. It doesn't. SR reverses things like settings and
registry entries but it does not remove software.

It can - and *does* - remove files, and not JUST the system files.
Perhaps you haven't experienced that, but I certainly have.

It just unregisters it.

No, but that is not ALL System Restore does.
And I never stated that it erased all its files, either, for that matter.

Also, I never stated that it was *equivalent to* "uninstalling" the program,
but the result can be similar, of course (since as far as the previous
registry is concerned, the program never was installed, even though that
program's files (or at least many of them) still exist in its Program Files
directory.


"Bill in Co." <not_really_here@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Uncle Grumpy wrote:
"Bill in Co." <not_really_here@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Has nothing to do with uninstalling a program.

It might, if System Restore was unable to *successfully* keep track of
all
the system changes incurred during the uninstallation of a large
program.

<sigh>

System Restore does NOT keep track of program
installation/uninstallation
per se.

You're still missing the point. How's the view up there in the
bleachers?


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