Solved Microsoft PC Manager v. 3.15 touted to have Revo Uninstaller features

Almighty1 said:

I wouldn't say that.

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I would. And from the rest of your post, I'm having difficulty if recognising where Revo was the cause of the problem ... starting with the user's inappropriate use of Revo to fix a mouse problem??? And continuing with issues that are irrelevant to Revo's intended functions???

idgat said:

I would. And from the rest of your post, I'm having difficulty if recognising where Revo was the cause of the problem ... starting with the user's inappropriate use of Revo to fix a mouse problem??? And continuing with issues that are irrelevant to Revo's intended functions???

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Well, the mouse problem could be something left behind when the mouse software was uninstalled since the mouse works fine and did not have the freezing/slow down problem as soon as the Mouse Control Panel software process was killed. So it is not inappropriate use as I am using the Pro version and it is revelant to Revo's intended function as I wanted to make sure everything used by the mouse software is gone since remember Revo's intended function is to remove completely whatever you are trying to install except the advanced part would include the stuff it installed in Device Manager which it does not do automatically and requires the user to do. If you didn't need a cleanup, then you can just use the Windows Add/Remove programs, there would be no need to use Revo as Revo's intended function is to remove everything the software you want remove is gone 100%. It works exactly the way Quarterdeck Cleansweep does by logging the install and then uninstalling based on the what it logged during the install.

"Revo Uninstaller is an uninstaller for Microsoft Windows. It uninstalls programs and additionally removes any files and Windows registry entries left behind by the program's uninstaller or by the Windows uninstall function." except I was doing it the logged method of install so the uninstall should reverse the installation process.



It was the Trace log that was the issue since the mouse software does include installing drivers.

What I was trying to do was do a clean uninstall of the mouse software so I can install it again as the cause of the problem could be something left behind. It's no different than Dell's Trusted Agent v6.3 when upgraded to v6.4 will not get past the splash screen and the regular and non-Pro Revo fixed it by clean uninstalling v6.3 as v6.4 was completely renamed, it was called something else other than Trusted Agent and everyone had the same problem with the splash screen.

Two steps; registry entries and then leftover folders.

Whenever I use Revo, I also go into the "Advanced" settings for the registry and carefully tick only the bold entries in there. The bold entries are the ones that pertain to that particular software that I want to uninstall.

That means sometimes going down the registry tree and checking them, being very careful not to delete any un-bolded entries that might be right above the bolded ones. Depending upon the software installed (and how many registry entries it creates), it might be a time-consuming process.

I also delete any leftover folders it wants to leave behind by selecting all and then the delete button in that particular case.

Your registry could be damaged in some way. That's not Revo's fault but more something done as user error.

x509 said:

Amen, brother. But how do any of us "keep life from getting in the way?"ROTFLMAO.

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Simple. The solution is to... "not have a life".
Just "exist" instead.

cheaterslick said:

Two steps; registry entries and then leftover folders.

Whenever I use Revo, I also go into the "Advanced" settings for the registry and carefully tick only the bold entries in there. The bold entries are the ones that pertain to that particular software that I want to uninstall.

That means sometimes going down the registry tree and checking them, being very careful not to delete any un-bolded entries that might be right above the bolded ones. Depending upon the software installed (and how many registry entries it creates), it might be a time-consuming process.

I also delete any leftover folders it wants to leave behind by selecting all and then the delete button in that particular case.

Your registry could be damaged in some way. That's not Revo's fault but more something done as user error.

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It is not the registry could be damaged in some way as I did carefully checked every single entry which as I said were all drivers that is specific to the mouse itself like the Swiftpoint USB 501 driver and the Swiftpoint Mouse entries. Remember you are using Revo Uninstaller not Revo Uninstaller Pro and I logged the installation with Revo Uninstaller Pro to make sure it gets uninstalled correctly and remember if Windows did not do the Automatic Repair, then I could have simply just used System Restore and reversed it as one thing Revo Uninstaller Pro does is it does create a System Restore point. But in this case, it did something that Driver Store Explorer does a better job of and never fails. So in my case, the Advanced only showed like 10 entries which I have verified are specific to the Swiftpoint ProPoint Mouse software. Everything was fixed with a in-place repair install of Windows using a UUPDump ISO. Remember that the mouse even without the drivers is supposed to work as a PS/2 mouse, just without the customization of the buttons and would not result in the system hanging as Revo Uninstaller Pro apparently deleted not only the mouse drivers but also the Intel Serial IO.

The only thing that can cause a BSOD as far as Device Manager is concerned is either deleting the Storage controller driver or having the wrong Storage controller driver.

So it is not registry corruption as the system would not work again if that was the case even though anything is a possibility. The whole point of traced logs is logs is so it can uninstall 100% what was installed and obviously, it does not know how to handle things that installs drivers as part of the software package or else the uninstall would not have made the uninstalling of the drivers as a Advanced option and one still cannot explain why it broke Windows Installer from working so anything that uses MSI or pnputil would not work. No software is perfect but if their uninstaller and we are talking about the paid version has problems, one would think twice about using their registry cleaner. Microsoft whether we like it or not would know more about the internals of Windows than a third party company as it's their product which only they have the source code for.

I've stopped mostly using Revo Uninstaller Portable, as felt if i watch what i install, i shouldn't even need it really. Also been installing less junk than i used to

Additonally ran Microsoft PC Manager a little while, then removed it as i felt i didn't really need it for my use cases of my Computer systems.

So far Systems haven't had any problems