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Software Install Tip: When windows wants to reboot, I suggest you let it

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lanux128:
^^ +1 for WhyReboot and the dev even dropped by some time back..

• https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=1710.msg46620#msg46620

PhilB66:
There's also Pending File Moves:


Pending File Moves is really simple application that displays a list of pending file rename/delete operations, that take place the next time the system boots.
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http://koti.mbnet.fi/vaultec/software.php#pendfilemoves

Source code available too.

Curt:
even worse situation: You (ehmmm...: "I"!) know that Windows wants to reboot, but you install a large recovery program, and and makes an Uninstaller_Pro do the installation. You re-boot, and the Uninstaller_Pro scans and now has a wrong idea of the program you installed. You ("I") use Uninstaller_Pro to remove the recovery program, and puff!!! Windows is no longer available!

At least that is how I imagine it happened, when I lost my Vista.

Thanks for the reminder,mouser!  :up:

TaoPhoenix:
Nice tip on WhyReboot. I only had a couple of Flash updates that needed rebooting, though it's annoying that another one appeared AFTER I rebooted. Heh - I'll reboot later (eek!) because I got trapped on CodingHorror!

(Now I have 12 tabs to read!)  :P

db90h:
WhyReboot is very reminiscent of my old http://bitsum.com/other.php#movelatr]console mode MoveLatr utility, which not only enumerated pending move operations, but also allowed you to set them (including delete a file). I distributed it with full source code.. a decade ago (EDIT: 12 YEARS AGO). Been a while.

--- Summary of MoveLater (12 years old, it its teens ;p) --

LICENSE: Freeware, Open Source.

MoveLatr (aka MoveLater) is a nice console mode utility: http://bitsum.com/other.php#movelatr. Freeware, and open source at that. You can not only view pending operations by just running it, but also *set* them, including deletions.

Of course, looking at the source code now, it would look a lot different if I coded it these days ;). Though I'm not sure that HTML markup is the latest copy of the source, need to check.

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