DonationCoder.com Software > Post New Requests Here

Remember removed programs

(1/3) > >>

Curt:
Don't you just hate it when it happens. You have grown used to some feature, and one day this particular feature is gone, and you can't remember which program gave it to you, or you can at least not remember the name of the program. And where do you go to read about the programs that were recently removed? There is no such place to go, because the informations went out the door together with the program and the feature.

My wish is for some little app to read and remember (important parts of) the informations from Windows' "Add/Remove Programs", or something alike, so I can go back and figure out why I suddenly lost this or that feature, please.

 :tellme:

MilesAhead:
It sounds like what you want is a free database.  I wrote a utility to comment files I download.  You may be able to use it somewhat for this purpose until you find an exact match or somebody codes it for you.

Here's the description

http://www.favessoft.com/comment.html

edit: I googled and I think I'm going to give Treepad Lite a try.  From the description it looks to be totally portable.  Can carry on a key drive or whatever.

MilesAhead:
Hmmmmmmmmm I've started messing with Treepad Lite.  Pretty easy use and it does primitive searches on entire trees.  You could search on features that way.  Only thing is after you install or download something you need to be in the habit of firing it up and making an entry.

Still, for free it ain't bad.

rjbull:
Total Uninstall keeps a list of programs that it's both installed and uninstalled.  Not free, but a good product.

[Edit]
Not certain - I think Treepad Lite does set a Registry key, but they were intending to make a truly portable version one day.  MemPad really is portable, but its search features aren't quite as strong as Treepad Lite's if you have more than a few hits.  Having said that, both of them were probably conceived as relatively light-duty applications.  However, alt.comp.freeware's Pricelessware list of popular free software can be had as a Treepad HJT file, or at least it could used to be.
[/Edit]

AbteriX:
f.ex. NirSofts MyUninstall can save current items to an file, -- you have to do this manually by hand from time to time.

Or maybe you want to export the relevant reg keys via a batch and let the scheduler do this for you regularly?

http://www.ss64.com/nt/regedit.html
     Export part of the Registry
      REGEDIT /E pathname "RegPath"

Write this in an batch.cmd and set up an task to execute this batch every once a month
@ECHO OFF
REGEDIT /E D:\Backup\Registry_Uninstall_%%date%%.txt "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall"
REGEDIT /E D:\Backup\Registry_Products_%%date%%.txt "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products"
PAUSE
--- End quote ---

and you will get such an list:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{DD7CDE4F-.....-352D}_is1]
"Inno Setup: Setup Version"="5.2.3"
"Inno Setup: App Path"="f:\\Program Files\\PDF to Word"
"InstallLocation"="f:\\Program Files\\PDF to Word\\"
"Inno Setup: Icon Group"="PDF to Word"
"Inno Setup: User"="Administrator"
"Inno Setup: Selected Tasks"=""
"Inno Setup: Deselected Tasks"="desktopicon,quicklaunchicon"
"DisplayName"="PDF to Word"
"UninstallString"="\"f:\\Program Files\\PDF to Word\\unins000.exe\""
"QuietUninstallString"="\"f:\\Program Files\\PDF to Word\\unins000.exe\" /SILENT"
"Publisher"="Quick PDF"
"URLInfoAbout"="http://www.pdf.tld/"
"HelpLink"="http://www.pdf.tld/"
"URLUpdateInfo"="http://www.pdf.tld/"
"NoModify"=dword:00000001
"NoRepair"=dword:00000001
"InstallDate"="20080919"
-Registry_Uninstall_09.02.2009.txt
--- End quote ---


Note:
- modify the path "D:\Backup\" to your paths
- in an batch.cmd use two %s, on command line use one % only.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page