BCUninstaller failure issue

There are a number of good uninstallers some of which I have tried, but BCU seems to find many programs / apps which others do not list. So it should be a very useful utility but I have a major problem with it, which I have not found a solution to in its Manual or elsewhere. Many programs / apps which I 'uninstall' reappear when the program is restarted. I 'uninstall' thoroughly and not in Silent mode, so I get numerous notifications and reports that it is going well: 'uninstalled', 'deleted', 'cleaned' successfully and so on. The repeated return of 'removed' programs is something different to simply being unable to uninstall a particular program for some specified reason. If a program has been removed how can it reappear again?

I hope someone familiar with BCU can explain.



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I have used Revo for several years on Windows and Android, but like others eg.Wise, IOBIT I have found apps / programs listed, and uninstalled, by BCU which they do not ---- so it releases more much needed storage space. There is just this odd glitch that some (not most) 'uninstalled' items reappear, eg. iTunes, Konverter, KVC.

An additional point ---- none of the above, nor anything else, are able to find Windows Media Player which I can only access using the Play with / Open with context message option.

'There is nought so odd as the Windows OS'

Hi folks
These days why bother with uninstallers -- Current Windows 10 changes a lot so 3rd party suppliers have trouble keeping up.

Simply back up OS before installing stuff then if it doesn't work or you want to get rid of it -- just restore system if standard windows uninstall fails. If a program doesn't uninstall properly you should ask yourself why are you installing stuff that doesn't behave properly with Windows in the first place.

Previous versions of Windows could possibly justify these uninstallers but these days with latest version of W10 -- no way.

On an SSD with Free Macrium restore won't take long even with quite modest hardware. Always keep OS separate from your DATA as well.

Cheers
jimbo

Hi there.

I still disagree -- unless you are installing stuff nearly every day - and I doubt whether typical user does that a 15 min backup of the OS partition is hardly a problem -- I'd certainly do that before installing any sort of AV software or Antimalware stuff as these types of packages leave stuff all over the place. Same with any games or other stuff that needs dongles or special hardware.

Still it's what I supposed people are used to -- but the more 3rd party stuff that gets into "The kernel" the more chance you have of breaking something or giving your sweet kind friendly neighbourhood hacker a back door.

Typical bog standard application programs generally (> 95%) of the time won't bother windows at all whether you use windows uninstall or the applications uninstaller if one is supplied.

Cheers
jimbo

I have found how to correspond with the BCU's Developer --- if I find out something useful I will report it here.

Regarding backing up the system I was going to do so after the Fall update but am having second thoughts. Why should I need to backup now? The OS is saved as a disk image. Almost all my programs / apps, files of all sorts (with a few exceptions) are now on and run from external USB flash drives / memory cards. So why go to the trouble to backup?

What are the programs that are reappearing? I use a few uninstallers including BC. If uninstalling Store apps they could well get reinstalled automatically.

Turn Off Automatic Installation of Suggested Apps in Windows 10 Apps Features Tutorials

None of them are Windows Store apps. I am going to follow some suggestions from the developer, such as using the uninstall manually option