CPM or Revo?

Solarlynx · June 19, 2012, 12:22pm

I love IObit toolbox as well.

laserfan · June 19, 2012, 12:31pm

AFAICT from just reading about Revo Free and IOBit Uninstaller, neither of these monitors an installation like CPM. Is that right?

Two things I really like and need from CPM:

Monitors an install and is capable to show you all files and registry entries an install made
Lists installed programs with the exact Date AND TIME of an installation

I like this latter because if you have a problem later you can see the date/time of a program’s install and check this against files or folders that were created on your system.

Can Revo or Iobit do these?

Solarlynx · June 19, 2012, 3:13pm

That’s right. But otherwise it means neither Revo Free nor IOBit Uninstaller hover in your RAM.

They cannot. If a user finds it ok that CPM dwells all the time in the RAM then no problems. I prefer CTM.

laserfan · June 19, 2012, 3:17pm

Thanks, I got lotsa RAM and don’t care about that unless CPM interferes in some way with some other process.

But…what is CTM? Did you mean CPM?

???

Solarlynx · June 19, 2012, 3:33pm

CTM is an abbreviation of a great prog Comodo Time Machine. :-TU

laserfan · June 19, 2012, 6:01pm

I must not know what CTM does–how does that relate to the topic? Oh, I suppose you mean to go-back in time before an installation a la System Restore.

I want to be able months from now to effectively uninstall a program, or at least know how it’s littered my hard drive/system.

stormer · June 19, 2012, 9:00pm

Just remember, since CPM will be installed. Who is watching the watcher?

Revo + IObit both have portable versions, which the exception of maybe dropping a few files in %AppData%.

Solarlynx · June 20, 2012, 3:52am

There can be applied various strategies to combine CTM and Revo or other uninstaller, how to upgrade progs and so on.

RoloX2 · July 9, 2012, 10:28pm

RAM is cheap, plentiful and so are CPU cycles, so TSRs aren’t a problem.

Having CPM catch any install (manually initiated or not) and monitor it is well worth it.

Revo free doesn’t handle 64-bit applications, so it isn’t worth the install. Revo Pro might be worth it if it included lifetime upgrades or didn’t require a purchase for each machine.

Reverting to backups to work around uninstalling is throwing out the proverbial baby…

Currently, I use CPM 2 (I had problems with 1.3) to monitor and Your Uninstaller! to uninstall those not monitored by CPM.

Ideally, CPM would just monitor everything (and forward those results to Comodo for what I assume is to help keep their whitelist current).