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General Software Discussion / Re: better than using an unistaller? Altiris SVS
« on: May 06, 2006, 11:27 PM »
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.
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.