This version of Konstantin Polyakov’s ChemTable Soft Organizer v7.44 Program Uninstaller / Updater ( download and check versions and check VirusTotal yourself to make sure the download you receive is what you expect — this is clean at VirusTotal for me ) has a couple of bug fixes from it’s previous version, but is still quirky.
For example of a quirk, I right-click on old Adobe AIR, it offered to update 2 applications, silly me, thinking Adobe AIR must have 2 elements, I clicked … and 2 completely unrelated programs started updating, one of which put the software out of it’s license, and of course, Adobe AIR did not update.
This program, ALL software updaters, sorely needs to check LICENSES to make sure whatever update it offers does not exceed the license on the computer.
As such it should offer a way to archive an uninstalled program so that we can reinstall it, perhaps create a zip executable package that collects everything removed and allows us to reinstall it, along with orphans and registry entries.
This software needs an OOPS UNDO capability.
Uniquely to this software is the orphans finder, and it found lots of leftovers from the Maxthon browser that IObit Uninstaller and Revo Uninstaller missed — funny using a Russian uninstaller to remove a Chinese program, when neither country’s governments are trustworthy, and both are suspected of using commercial software distribution for nefarious purposes.
I strongly recommend that any software company in a questionable country move to a neutral territory in order to protect your own reputation ( and work to make your government safe for you and for the world … not that the US is a shining example at the moment ) — a clean scan at VirusTotal like this has helps build trust, I suppose.
Apparently no one can update Adobe AIR or Apple iTunes or Microsoft SilverLight, so I suppose that a manual complete uninstall and cleanup, and then a fresh install of the newer version is the only way to address programs that insist on finding their previous versions to uninstall as part of their installations, but their previous installers were cleaned up by any number of drive cleaning utilities — I’ve yet to see a Windows Program uninstaller / updater address these misbehaviors successfully.
More quirky wise, the “Rename” feature does not produce any changes in Revo Uninstaller’s list of a program’s names, for example, but both Revo Uninstaller and Soft Organizer show more programs than IObit Uninstaller … go figure, I guess we need them all!
I like Soft Organizer’s benefit of finding orphans that other uninstallers miss, though the user interface is inconsistent and confusing, but I consider it’s cleanup of left over unique and valuable, the other features seem on a par with IObit Uninstaller / Updater and Revo Uninstaller ( Revo is an only an uninstaller, revo has no updater, and has evolved and anti-user interface worse than Soft Organizer ! ) )
More quirky, user interface wise, I challenge you to go back to the full list of installed software after looking at software to update, I challenge you!
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