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<blockquote data-quote="roger_m" data-source="post: 902812" data-attributes="member: 31436"><p>Unless you regularly install and uninstall a lot of software, there's not much need for one. If you ever change from one antivirus to another, most security vendors, provide their own removal tools, which you can run after uninstalling the antivirus. This is one case where it matters to remove all leftovers and also one where uninstallers like Revo, HiBit etc, are actually of little use.</p><p></p><p>If you feel you need an uninstaller, HiBit Uninstaller which has already been recommended, is excellent and free. Total Uninstall is the best uninstaller there is in my experience, but it's not cheap. However, it's the only uninstaller I would recommend buying. HiBit does its best to find files and registry keys which appear to be leftover from the software that was just uninstalled. Total Uninstall creates snapshots of your system, before and after you install new software. This means it has an actual record of every single file and registry key that was created. This allows it to completely remove all leftovers after uninstalling software.</p><p></p><p>Yes, it's very important to have a full backup of your system, so in the case of hard drive or SSD failure, data loss due to malware (e.g. ransomware), problems with Windows Updates, etc, you can restore your system to how it was before the issues. System Restore is good for fixing minor issues.</p><p></p><p>I use AOMEI Backupper. The free version should be adequate. Some people prefer Macrium Reflect and that also has a free version. Both of them work well.</p><p></p><p>Wise Disk Cleaner works very well and I highly recommend it. Auslogics is decent, but even the standard Windows defrag, which runs automatically every week, works well. So you may want to stick with the Windows defrag, unless you feel that you your system runs better after using Auslogics.</p><p></p><p>You are right about registry cleaning. Not only is there usually no need to ever clean the registry, the vast majority of registry cleaners will sometimes delete needed registry keys, which can cause problems. A plus for Wise Disk Cleaner, is that is only cleans junk files and does not touch the registry.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="roger_m, post: 902812, member: 31436"] Unless you regularly install and uninstall a lot of software, there's not much need for one. If you ever change from one antivirus to another, most security vendors, provide their own removal tools, which you can run after uninstalling the antivirus. This is one case where it matters to remove all leftovers and also one where uninstallers like Revo, HiBit etc, are actually of little use. If you feel you need an uninstaller, HiBit Uninstaller which has already been recommended, is excellent and free. Total Uninstall is the best uninstaller there is in my experience, but it's not cheap. However, it's the only uninstaller I would recommend buying. HiBit does its best to find files and registry keys which appear to be leftover from the software that was just uninstalled. Total Uninstall creates snapshots of your system, before and after you install new software. This means it has an actual record of every single file and registry key that was created. This allows it to completely remove all leftovers after uninstalling software. Yes, it's very important to have a full backup of your system, so in the case of hard drive or SSD failure, data loss due to malware (e.g. ransomware), problems with Windows Updates, etc, you can restore your system to how it was before the issues. System Restore is good for fixing minor issues. I use AOMEI Backupper. The free version should be adequate. Some people prefer Macrium Reflect and that also has a free version. Both of them work well. Wise Disk Cleaner works very well and I highly recommend it. Auslogics is decent, but even the standard Windows defrag, which runs automatically every week, works well. So you may want to stick with the Windows defrag, unless you feel that you your system runs better after using Auslogics. You are right about registry cleaning. Not only is there usually no need to ever clean the registry, the vast majority of registry cleaners will sometimes delete needed registry keys, which can cause problems. A plus for Wise Disk Cleaner, is that is only cleans junk files and does not touch the registry. [/QUOTE]
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