Successful real-time monitoring makes more sense, as long as it works.

-Steven Avery (December 22, 2011, 10:41 AM)

In general it can't handle well when installer needs to reboot. One serious disadvantage with these real-time monitoring app..

Keep in mind that automated reversals can have "issues". Say a .dll was overwritten during the install to a newer version, then if it was not saved in a special hold area to come home ... you can not simply delete the new one.  What does Revo try to do ?

-Steven Avery (December 22, 2011, 10:41 AM)

Here the fault is from the installer and/or their own uninstaller. Snapshots based uninstallers don't have any action to modified files - and don't should do that in fact (they aren't backup applications).
ZSoft Uninstaller and Total Uninstall authors always adviced to uninstall firstly using the owner uninstaller. Such step avoids annoyances.

One thing Revo suggests is to run the newly installed program for the first time while the tracking system is still active - not something normally done with snapshots - so it can track changes initially made by the software after installation.  I like that  :Thmbsup:.

-barney (December 22, 2011, 11:12 AM)

With snapshots based uninstallers is always highly recommended to do that also - the uninstall is then exhaustive.

You are right some backup software about, Bamse. Last acess disable related. Like to uncheck "Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching" couldn't be good if the user needs to search for files very often. However I think that, in general, there hints could be good for the system performance.

MyDefrag about: their defaults scripts don't use the "LastAccessEnabled" action; users can do their own scripts with it though.

It seems that the problem is with OEM encoding (and DOS...).

This info could be useful: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1259084/what-encoding-code-page-is-cmd-exe-using