Hi :) The "Revo Uninstaller" is a 3rd party app. It has nothing to do with Microsoft, TDF, Oracle nor Apache. I don't know if it's OpenSource or what or who does own it or why they make it. If MS ere capable of making something this good then i suspect they would be making a lot of fuss about it. I haven't used it so i don't know if it's as good as people say.
The official Microsoft nearest equivalent is their "Add/Remove Programs" (which doesn't add programs btw (a tangent)) and also doesn't seem to un-install programs particularly well either imo. There are lots of 3rd party apps that claim to be able to clean up the registry but they usually turn out to be malware. Unlike those Revo looks like an excellent product and apparently does more than just deal with registry clutter. Regards form Tom :) ________________________________ From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, 21 June, 2011 14:40:28 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.3.3 is ready for download On 06/21/2011 01:19 AM, planas wrote: > Earl > > On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 19:16 -0700, Earl Melton wrote: > >> I used Revo Uninstaller to remove my 3.2 (or was it 3.3.2?) on Win-7. It hung >> with the progress bar at about 80% of completion for over two hours, never >> moving further. In the selection window (similar to Control Panel Add/Remove >> window), I saw that I had told it to uninstall the main program and that the >> Help module (or whatever it was called) had not started. On a whim, I started >> another instance of RU and told it to uninstall the help section. I chose the >> slowest, most thorough number 4 setting for both uninstalls. Long story short >> -- it then completely uninstalled both 'halves' in about a minute and I'm >>ready >> to DL the 3.3.3 final and install it. >> >> >> Don't know if this'll help anyone else, but it [apparently] needs to remove >the >> help files first. Hopefully the new install will go smoothly. I have never >> experienced a problem installing either OOo or my first shot at LibO. >> -- >> I'm so busy, I don't know whether I found a rope or lost my horse! >> <>< Earl >> >> -- >> > Thanks Thanks for the info though. If I have any problems with friends' computer with Win-7 and LO installs, I will remember your "trick". I do not use Win-7, so this may be a stupid question. So is "Revo Uninstaller" the replacement for add/remove programs in the XP and Vista Control Panel? Or is it some other uninstall program that can be used? Since I never had any real install issues with OOo or LO, except one OOo version where the JRE bombed out every time, so I never had to use an uninstall program to remove OOo or LO on a Windows computer. Actually I had to do that with "beta" and "RC#" version, but that does not count. The error dialogs came up with 3.3.3 on Vista, but they were talking about .NET issues and by saying "OK" or "YES", the install went though fine. Now on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, I sometimes have to do a "purge" for versions, but that is issues on my system, not LibreOffice issues. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] In case of problems unsubscribing, write to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] In case of problems unsubscribing, write to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
