98SE/New record registry leftovers/Roxio

An uninstall of Roxio CD burner left me with two hours work picking 220
kilobytes of left-over keys from the registry. That beats the previous record
of 210 kb left over by uninstalling Symantec "Norton" Utilities.
Just for info ...
regards

 

...and I though Norton would take the prize EVERY time!

Was this from a successful uninstall or did it fail to complete? If it was successful, then I'd be contacting Roxio.

 

Hi Paul, Thanks for the response.
The install was OK and I used it a few times. The only doubt in my mind is
that I may have done a reg restore AFTER the uninstall - so I will
retract my criticism - for the time being.
regards

 

Roxio has a utility called Roxizap that can be used to completely remove their EasyCD product. You run it after doing the uninstall from Add/Remove programs and before rebooting the PC. I've used it a couple times and it seems to do a good job of cleaning up things. If you do a search in their knowledge base you can get more info on using it.

You can get it here http://softwareupdates.roxio.com/gm/support/tools/roxizap.exe

Just thought I would pass this along since I've used it before successfully.

 

Hi BillB and thanks for your post and url.
I cannot connect to the url at present - will try again later.
It seems however, that Roxio are admitting to a bad uninstaller ?
Otherwise they would not have published this zap thing,
At any rate, they certainly make a lot of chaos in your registry, so I guess
they have maybe three programmers and the boss thinks he is ,but is not,
a reg guru.
regards

 

Hi Merlin,

No Problem. I've been through the registry headache before and the zap program helped a lot. You would think that software vendors like Roxio, Symantec, etc. could do a better job of cleaning up after themselves during an uninstall, especially when they seem to know that it isn't doing the job and they have to provide a separate cleanup utility.

Bill

 

Hi Bill, Finally got Roxizap. More than another 170 reg entries gone !
Thanks for the tip - that's over 400 total Roxio keys out of the registry.
I do not think anyone in their right minds would program something like that
and with no clean up on an uninstall.
regards

 

That is a mistake that MANY users ( myself included ) make.

I also spent hours cleaning up after Symantec and a couple of other things then did a System Restore. ( dilberately ) too see what would happen. It was clean up time up all over again.

This is why I have mentioned many times and many places.

After removing software and cleaning up after same SHUTDOWN and RESTART System restore.

Of course it does pay to shutdown and restart Windows a time or to so as to make sure all is going to be OK.

System Restore in XP and the RB00x.cab file in 98 can be very usefull. But if not handled with some thouhgt ( especially after house cleaning ) they can be heavy duty EXTRA work makers.

For examle. If you house clean today by removing Symantec, WHY do we need ( or want ) YESTERDAYS backup.

Plus if we do a system restore ( or a scanreg /restore ) it is also a possibility the ONLY PART of Symantec gets put back which can be more problematic than it was in the first place.

Or lets say we had problems and got them fixed. WHY do we need ( or want ) YESTERDAYS backup.

BilllyBob