Windows 10 Needs a Better App Uninstaller, Users Claim

feherneoh said:

CountMike said:

Lee said:

. . .backup. . .what is that? I don't backup anything other then my files and personnel data, thus other then that if something happens I enjoy the rebuilding of the system. . .I know I'm a little on the strange side, albeit what can I say. . .

Backup......oh well, that's something you regret not doing when you loose everything.

You can even lose the backups, so what's te point? Sysprem and imagex/dism are your friends, so you can create an installer image with all of your inportant applications (and Windows updates). For the user data: Separate disks/partitions are just enough, however I just keep everything on the same partition. Still no problem, if I just dirty-install the OS (that is without formatting), because I will still have my files. Only viruses/hardware problems can cause trouble in this case (Yeah, and in some cases the "clean" command in diskpart)

The point is that with backup you have to loose at least two things to loose everything, without it you have one and when it's gone .....

We are talking about system backup and not data backup. Data backup is a common sense. System backup is an instinct. If you don't have it, you don't have it.

badrobot said:

We are talking about system backup and not data backup. Data backup is a common sense. System backup is an instinct.

System backup is convenience, data backup is a must.

BearPup said:

I also use IObit Uninstaller and have for quite some time. Indeed, I'm very pleased with how many legacy software programs Win 10 is compatible with, especially as I'm running Win 10 on legacy hardware (a 7 year old laptop!). In fact all of my programs save one (Universal Extractor) are running fine under Win 10.

It's nice that I won't have to reinvest in every computer hardware and software piece I own, just to keep my OS fresh. Microsoft got this one right.

I don't know if you remember Vista and driver problems there, but it's heaven now in comparison. There were some hiccups with some HW at the Win8 > 8.1 transition but was patched up soon enough. Most important thing is for MS to give manufacturers all the necessary information about intended changes in DirectX and conditions under which drivers should work because MFGs are the ones responsible for drivers for their own HW. In any case, base of drivers available in MS database are impressive now.

Trust_No1 said:

After seeing all of the solutions, then I guess everyone concurs...
Microsoft absolutely needs a better uninstaller program, now let us see if it ever happens.

Absolutely, would spare ones that do not want to use or don't know about third party uninstallers a lot of grief.