Installable vs Portable?

[sri]

I understand the obvious benefits of portable software like FARR.

But is there any benefit of using it via the installed program option?

[mouser]

No substantial benefit.  Some people just prefer it as the standard approach.  It can be a little more convenient in terms of automatically creating start menu items.  And you can install updates just by running the new installer versions.

[sri]

Thanks for the reply.

I have uninstalled FARR and reinstalled it but the skin, font size etc. settings remain.

Is there a way to do a complete reset and start over from scratch when installing using the exe?

[mouser]

When you uninstall FARR, it doesn't automatically delete your installed settings.
If you want to delete them you can delete them by deleting the folder "C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\DonationCoder\FindAndRunRobot"

[Shades]

Use uninstaller software, such as Revo Uninstaller, IObit Uninstaller, Geek Uninstaller. There are more.

These can be used to start the un-installation process of the software. These start the normal un-installer functionality from Windows itself, and when that is done, it will go and check if there are still settings left in the Windows registry and/or files that were no deleted. You can then clean out the remainder and you are good to go to either re-install "fresh" or use the portable version that takes its settings only from the included configuration file.