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General Software Discussion / Re: better than using an unistaller? Altiris SVS

« on: May 14, 2006, 06:41 AM »

After installing Altiris SVS I was decompressing some archives with WinRar's rightclick option.  A few decompressed succesfully but 1 was corrupt & 1 exceeded the 256 maximum character length.  Windows informed me that WinRar had encountered an error & would be closed.  A folder was still created by these 2 failed decompressions.

When I browsed both of  these folders, at the bottom of the extracted path was a replication of my C drive including the few files in the root & the subfolders of the root.  The subfolders were all empty.

I didn't want to take a chance with my system so rather than troubleshoot any further I uninstalled SVS & rebooted.  I browsed back to the bottom of the failed extraction paths & the directory structure mimicking the root of my C drive is gone & replaced by some correctly extracted files.

-skywalka (May 06, 2006, 11:27 PM)

It happened to me too, and I didn't suspect it was caused by SVS until now! Weird things happened to my PC after installing Altiris:

- The files and folders under C:\ root will appear randomly in other folders, even on desktop. This happened most when I did a copy/cut & paste operation, and instead of the files I selected, I see the structure of my C:\ root in the target folder. However, all files have 0 bytes, and the "ghost" files and folders would go away after I retried the operation.
- The order of my Start Menu\Programs are totally messed up.
- Add/Remove program showed nothing, a reboot fixed this though.

After uninstalling SVS, all the problems are gone. I guess it is a small bug that only appears on some systems.