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better than using an unistaller? Altiris SVS

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f0dder:
That sounds pretty scary, skywalka!

Have you run chkdsk lately on your partitions? Sometimes even small errors can give strange problems, and when installing custom filter drivers (like Altiris SVS is), I bet things can become even stranger...

skywalka:
Not for a while.  A big scan is on the cards for tonight.

Something else worth mentioning is there are traces of the program I installed to an SVS layer in my Start menu!  It is a shortcut without a target but it shouldn't be there.

moerl:
I'm still very much in love with SVS :). Nothing wrong here, but then again I have not uninstalled it.

hjk:
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)
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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.

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