uninstaller

Unfortunately, the uninstaller is not smart enough to kill the Unbox process before attempting to uninstall, so it hangs indefinitely.

That will clear out Service Packs and some uninstaller files, it won't clean up WinSXS.

Steve jobs would build an uninstaller that ran right after to remove the shit.

Thus: by the time I had a working or semi-working uninstaller, the world would have moved on.

There is a program called Adobe Flash Player Uninstaller that does the trick, and as an added benefit, it also prevents any future zero-day exploit.

No installer, no uninstaller, no DLLs, just a fully functional, no frills spreadsheet program.

I don't know if this has changed, but when I tried Atom and didn't like it, I discovered that there was no uninstaller.

Turns out the uninstaller doesn't perform this step (whoops!).

Suppose that I'd immediately hunkered down and started writing an uninstaller in isolation.

Errors syncing with remote server on my windows Machine even after uninstall with revo uninstaller and reinstalling.

I've been using Revo Uninstaller for some time now.

I've found the packages really spotty as to where they are going to install, what options they are going to use, whether they bother to provide an uninstaller.

> your software is a bad citizen in the windows ecosystem According to MS who seem to be trying to force the idea that all software needs to be "installed" and have an overly complex installer/uninstaller.

If the stated goal is to defeat malware then windowsupdate.microsoft.com should be seized and routed to a non-interactive Windows Uninstaller.

However, it's important that you've removed Flash completely from your system (using Flash Uninstaller), rather than just disable Flash (hoping to use Click-To-Flash).

Uninstaller applications are still a necessity.