Favorite uninstaller software?

[CloudGray]

Unless things have changed in Windows 8/8.1 the add/remove programs feature is garbage, leaving stray folders and registry files abound.

So, what's your go-to uninstaller for removing things completely and utterly?

 

[hclarkjr]

revo uninstaller

 

[Virgorising]

revo uninstaller

Fist bump.

 

[Berryracer]

the free Geek Uninstaller,

it doesn't need to sit and monitor every installation you do

instead, when you uninstall a program with it, the regular uninstaller of that program launches, but once it's done, Geek Uninstaller will search for any remnant registry entries, show them to you, and allow you to choose whether to delete them or not

never had a single problem with it as opposed to when Revo Uninstaller messed up my registry once in the past

 

[corkyg]

Another vote for Revo.

 

[ringtail]

I used to use Revo.

Past year I've been using COMODO Programs Manager

EXCEPT

sometimes it'll only do a "Standard" uninstall instead of a "Complete": uninstall. Then I close Comodo and use Revo instead. Comodo "Standard" merely runs the vanilla uninstaller without the deep registry search.

As I understand it, when a program is installed COMODO memorizes all the registry entries, and for a Complete uninstall uses that to delete all those registry entries. However, Comodo standard uninstall lacks that.

Revo (at least the free version) doesn't memorize registry entries on installing a program, but when uninstalling it tries to catch them . I don't know if Revo finds them all by searching, or if a web comment I read is true, that Revo uses some sort of predictive algorithm to find the registry entries to be removed.

Anyway, at least Revo will clean out a lot of the registry junk otherwise left behind on uninstalling a program.