Revo Uninstaller is an
uninstaller
An uninstaller, also called a deinstaller, is a variety of utility software designed to remove other software or parts of it from a computer. It is the opposite of an installer. Uninstallers are useful primarily when software components are insta ...
for
Microsoft Windows
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. It uninstalls programs and additionally removes any files and
Windows registry
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entries left behind by the program's uninstaller or by the Windows uninstall function.
Features
Revo Uninstaller first runs the selected program's built-in uninstaller, then searches and removes associated files and registry entries that the uninstaller may not have removed from the user's drive.
Revo Uninstaller also cleans out:
* Files in the
temporary folder
In computing, a temporary folder or temporary directory is a directory used to hold temporary files. Many operating systems and some software automatically delete the contents of this directory at bootup or at regular intervals, leaving the direc ...
* Entries in the Windows start-up applications folder
* Browser history and
cache
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Places United States
* Cache, Idaho, an unincorporated community
* Cache, Illinois, an unincorporated community
* Cache, Oklahoma, a city in Comanche County
* Cache, Utah, Cache County, Utah
* Cache County ...
of
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE) is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft which was used in the Windows line of operating systems (in ...
,
Firefox
Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current ...
,
Opera
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and
Netscape
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* The recently opened file list in
Microsoft Office
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applications
Revo Uninstaller can also
irrecoverably delete files.
A
portable
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General
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* Portable classroom, a temporary building installed on the grounds of a school to provide ...
version is available that can be run without installing onto or modifying the system, in particular from external
storage media
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such as
USB and
network
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Science and technology
* Network theory, the study of graphs as a representation of relations between discrete objects
* Network science, an academic field that studies complex networks
Mathematic ...
drives.
The freeware version 2 of Revo Uninstaller can support both 32-bit and 64-bit applications.
See also
*
Uninstaller
An uninstaller, also called a deinstaller, is a variety of utility software designed to remove other software or parts of it from a computer. It is the opposite of an installer. Uninstallers are useful primarily when software components are insta ...
References
External links
*
Freemium
Portable software
Uninstallers for Windows
Windows-only software
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