- Jun 14, 2015
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Soft Organizer doesn't monitor the installer alone; that would be ineffective as all modifications are not done only by the installer itself. You're also supposed to run the program you installed and configure it before telling Soft Organizer to stop tracing. For example, the program may update or download/install additional components and write configuration files and this is the only way to catch that.
Yes, the downside of this is that it will log every change made by anything; however, one can filter these changes relatively easily and even mitigate them (don't multi-task whilst installing). To not log everything guarantees that your installation will not be completely captured and it would be difficult-to-impossible to deduce every change made by one specific package. Better too much information than not enough.
This also means that when you do uninstall with it, don't do so blindly--which isn't a good idea with any uninstaller, especially the scanning (guessing) ones.
Additionally, there was some software (security, don't remember which) I was testing on a VM and it created 50 thousand registry entries! (someone else pointed that out; I confirmed it w/Soft Organizer)
Yes, the downside of this is that it will log every change made by anything; however, one can filter these changes relatively easily and even mitigate them (don't multi-task whilst installing). To not log everything guarantees that your installation will not be completely captured and it would be difficult-to-impossible to deduce every change made by one specific package. Better too much information than not enough.
This also means that when you do uninstall with it, don't do so blindly--which isn't a good idea with any uninstaller, especially the scanning (guessing) ones.
Additionally, there was some software (security, don't remember which) I was testing on a VM and it created 50 thousand registry entries! (someone else pointed that out; I confirmed it w/Soft Organizer)