Total Uninstall is a complete uninstaller which include two working modes. Installed Programs module analyze existing installations and create a log with installation changes. It is able to uninstall programs even without the help of supplied Add Remove program. Monitored Programs module helps to monitor any changes made to your system during the installation of a new program. It allows you to perform a complete uninstall without having to rely on the supplied Add Remove programs which can leave files or changes behind.
Rated 10/50 by Anonymous at Jun 29, 2010
BOYCOTT THIS GREEDY LYING COMPANY. AUTHOR THREATENED LAWSUIT IF YOU LEAVE BAD REVIEWS. PRODUCT DOESN'T DO WHAT THEY CLAIM. Use ZSOFT UNINSTALLER or REGSHOT (BOTH FREE) Does this program scan the entire registry? NO. It scans 2 out of 5 Registry Hives by default and another if you set it to do so, not to mention the MANY EXCLUDED KEYS. FACT. In the options menu under Monitored Programs-Scanning Profiles-Default-Registry Tab you'll see only: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE HKEY_USERS Open Microsoft Registry Editor and you'll clearly see that there are 5 registry hives: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT HKEY_CURRENT_USER HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE HKEY_USERS HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG Prior to version 5.x, were "MAJOR UPGRADES" Free? NO. Only until recently 5.x was the author forced to give people "One Free Year Maintenance Period". FACT. If you bought version 4.9.5 and version 5 came out a day later, you would have to buy the product again. Are people THAT WORK for this company (gmartau and Plumber) posting positive reviews, claiming litigation against anyone that leaves negative reviews and REMOVING USERS REVIEWS. YES. Read the other review for yourself. FACT. If you don't believe me, find a program with a 30 trial period, install the product with Total Uninstall with before and after snapshots, wait a couple of days, uninstall the 30 trial program with Total Uninstall and then Re-Install the program. You'll find that you have 28 - 29 days left on your trial. If it removed all registry traces then the second time you install the trial program you would have 30 days left on your trial.
Rated 10/50 by terryjackson at Jul 29, 2010
LOL! This program will unregister itself, and you have to pay again if you have a firewall installed ! Now that's something new, I have to remember that one. Seriously, DO NOT pay for this lameware, you have better freebies than this never updated piece of slow s***.
Rated 50/50 by Plumber at Aug 5, 2010
Uh... WOW. Now someone is claiming that if you have a firewall installed, the author of Total Uninstall will make you pay multiple times to register it. What's next--the author sneaks into your home at night and steals your teeth? I do not work for the author of Total Uninstall. For some reason, posting positive reviews and discrediting false statements is enough for some people to think otherwise. As if a person can't simply dislike venomous nonsense and wish to respond. Without rehashing and re-rebutting all the nonsense written previously, consider this one random point that keeps coming up--the insistence that Total Uninstall skips the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (HKCR) "hive". A quick read of http://support.microsoft.com/kb/256986 shows us that HKCR is not a hive at all; it is a subkey of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, which is scanned by Total Uninstall by default. This is just one small example of a fact pointed out that goes ignored by the people with a negativist agenda. Disproven hyperbole aside, this is one utility that does it all, does it best, and is continually improved. Now we have someone calling it "n00bware". Interesting. Actually, this person may have a point. I am very aware of the registry and file system structure, so maybe I will start monitoring it all manually, and undoing all changes made by applications and their installers manually as well. I'll spend 90 hours a week doing this, but at least I'll be "l33t".
Rated 10/50 by RYAN2679 at Aug 10, 2010
Use ZSoft Uninstaller or Regshot (BOTH FREE) PRODUCT DOESN'T DO WHAT THEY CLAIM. GREEDY COMPANY. Does this program scan the entire registry? NO. Prior to version 4, it scanned the ENTIRE REGISTRY, but now it only scans 2 out of 5 Registry Hives by default and another if you set it to do so, not to mention the MANY EXCLUDED KEYS. FACT. In the options menu under Monitored Programs-Scanning Profiles-Default-Registry Tab you'll see only: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE HKEY_USERS Prior to version 5.x, were "MAJOR UPGRADES" Free? NO. Only until recently 5.x was the author forced to give people "One Free Year Maintenance Period". FACT. If you bought version 4.9.5 and version 5 came out a day later, you would have to buy the product again. PROOF: Open Total Uninstall and Create a Before Snapshot, Then Open Microsoft Registry Editor (cmd->regedit) and Create a Key called "Test" Anywhere in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, HKEY_CURRENT_USERS or HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG, Reboot Computer, Create an After Snapshot in Total Uninstall and Compare. You won't find the key you added anywhere. Install a 30 day trial program with Total Uninstall with before and after snapshots, wait a couple of days, uninstall the 30 trial program with Total Uninstall and then RE-INSTALL the program. You'll find that you have 28 - 29 days left on your trial. If it really removed all registry traces then the second time you install the trial program you would have 30 days left on your trial. Plumber: EVERYONE knows that you work for the company. Every time someone says something the least bit critical, you're there to insist otherwise and direct them to the company forum where there comments are quietly deleted. You're "Paid Opinions" mean less than nothing.
Rated 10/50 by Anonymous at Aug 10, 2010
Use ZSoft Uninstaller or Regshot (BOTH FREE) PRODUCT DOESN'T DO WHAT THEY CLAIM. GREEDY COMPANY. Does this program scan the entire registry? NO. Prior to version 4, it scanned the ENTIRE REGISTRY, but now it only scans 2 out of 5 Registry Hives by default and another if you set it to do so, not to mention the MANY EXCLUDED KEYS. FACT. In the options menu under Monitored Programs-Scanning Profiles-Default-Registry Tab you'll see only: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE HKEY_USERS Prior to version 5.x, were "MAJOR UPGRADES" Free? NO. Only until recently 5.x was the author forced to give people "One Free Year Maintenance Period". FACT. If you bought version 4.9.5 and version 5 came out a day later, you would have to buy the product again. PROOF: Open Total Uninstall and Create a Before Snapshot, Then Open Microsoft Registry Editor (cmd->regedit) and Create a Key called "Test" Anywhere in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, HKEY_CURRENT_USERS or HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG, Reboot Computer, Create an After Snapshot in Total Uninstall and Compare. You won't find the key you added anywhere. Install a 30 day trial program with Total Uninstall with before and after snapshots, wait a couple of days, uninstall the 30 trial program with Total Uninstall and then RE-INSTALL the program. You'll find that you have 28 - 29 days left on your trial. If it really removed all registry traces then the second time you install the trial program you would have 30 days left on your trial. Plumber: EVERYONE knows that you work for the company. Every time someone says something the least bit critical, you're there to insist otherwise and direct them to the company forum where there comments are quietly deleted. You're "Paid Opinions" mean less than nothing.
Rated 10/50 by Jambon at Sep 15, 2010
Terrible support, and a greedy author, Thanks, I'll look for something else instead.
Rated 50/50 by Plumber at Dec 8, 2010
It's incredible how deranged a person can be. I haven't been in the TU forums in ages. And I only wish I worked for all the authors people have accused me of working for, just because I don't tolerate nonsense from whack jobs with chips on their shoulder.
Rated 10/50 by JamesSmith2 at Dec 24, 2010
I'm skeptical of people that only say positive things about this program. It's very suspicious how "Plumber" only leaves a positive review on the day a new version comes out. I've used this program in the past and was not impressed. Even with a fast processor this program is incredibly Slow while scanning the before snapshots, like several minutes slow on a 3.4GHz Core i7 Processor. What the others are saying about it only scanning certain registry hives is true, it's clearly visible in the options menu to anyone with their eyes open. Whether those hives are necessary or not like the author suggests is an open debate, but I'll tell you this it won't re-active a free trial and that makes it not very beneficial beyond Windows built-in uninstaller. Anyone can go on forums and lie about a programs effectiveness, no-ones really screening these people, but eventually people catch on. I think that's what happened here. People realized they didn't need to pay $30/Year to a greedy author to clean their systems and the program all but died. I'll try something cheaper and faster.
Rated 10/50 by JamesSmith2 at Jan 2, 2011
Don't Waste $30 - $40. Not when ZSoft Uninstaller and Revo Uninstaller are FREE. I must have struck a nerve with the plumber, calling me "obtuse" and all, hahaha. Maybe those slander and libel threats work on some, but not me. Berating reviewers as being lunatics, only proves what you are. Besides, anyone can leave reviews, they're just options, but when threats of litigation become involved that crosses the line. Fortunately in my country there's something called Freedom of Speech. The program costs $29.95 for the "standard" and $39.95 for the "professional". Like theirs any difference! You get 1 Year of Updates and no more. Renewal costs were only added after 4.x because people complained about the price and stopped buying. Upgrades also last for 1 Year and upgrades from 4.x cost $19 for standard and $25 for professional. As for the question of registry hives being excluded, even the author states this in one of his reviews. He claims their not necessary, but the reality is he knows that's where authors hide activation keys for free trials and by excluding them and other hives he increases the speed of his slow as a turtle program. Just look in the options menu. It's under monitored programs, scanning profiles and registry. If you want to waste your money and listen to paid stooges that are nothing more than pimp for overpriced products, then do it. For those that live in the real world, just use a free alternative to this slow, expensive and useless program.
Rated 50/50 by Plumber at Jan 2, 2011
This JamesSmith2 person is obtuse. In every one of his reviews, he accuses others of being shills or otherwise biased. If they post positive reviews, well obviously they work for the author. If they post negative reviews, well obviously they work for the competition. I know lots of authors pull that nonsense, but it's not true in every case. Paranoid much? I post reviews when TU is on the front page for the same reason the "reviewer" below me did--because it's on the front page. Duh. This is typically the first time I become aware that a new version is out. It's clear to anyone who can read the sane reviews below that no "hives" are excluded from scanning. People who argue otherwise have no idea how the registry works. As for "$30 per year", that's nonsense. The standard/pro renewal price for a single PC is $15/$20. And are you FORCED to buy any of these upgrades? And as for "what happened here", well there was one or two nutballs who decided to create a slew of profiles and repeat the same libelous garbage, feeling safe in doing so only because the author is outside the USA.
Rated 10/50 by JamesSmith2 at Jan 19, 2011
Good Riddance. No one needs to pay $30/year when ZSoft Uninstaller and Revo Uninstaller are free. Either make a better, cheaper program or go out of business. I don't care which. Everyone that works for the company can create as many accounts as they like and leave positive reviews till they are blue in the face, it doesn't change how Slow and Overpriced the program is. Blatantly Lying that the program scans the entire Windows registry, when it only scans 2/3 registry hives minus some very important keys that contain registration settings, will get you nothing but fewer customers and angry former customers. Anyone who's not retarded can easily verify the facts stated in other reviews to prove my point.
Rated 10/50 by Input Overload at Jan 19, 2011
Using that big thing between your ears (no, not your nose) a simple free registry editor does all this overpriced baby food can do. Unneeded garbage of the most expensive kind. And what's this rubbish about being out of the good old USA? We do have laws in The United kingdom Plumber you dipstick. In fact we invented democracy & many other of (your?) laws.
Rated 10/50 by PaulWilliams at Jan 20, 2011
Plumber: International Tort Lawyer Extraordinaire. Seriously, no one cares about your stupid program. Give it a rest. The name of the program is "Total Uninstall", you couldn't be more clear than that. Claiming that it scans the Entire windows registry when it only scans a couple registry hives like the author admits in his post, is a clear case of Fraud and False Advertising. Why not rename it Partial Uninstall? I can assume that you're also from Romania. Are you familiar with Nicolae Ceausescu? Is that your idea of democracy and freedom of speech? If it is then I'm glad I don't live in Romania.
Rated 50/50 by Plumber at Jan 20, 2011
Ah, I see "JamesSmith2" is using terms like "retarded". I must've struck a nerve with him, LOL. Free speech does not extend to spreading harmful untruths about other people, businesses, and products. I don't know about how TU scans--or doesn't scan--certain "registration settings", but I know it doesn't skip registry hives. After all this time, the multi-account lunatics still don't understand the concept of registry mirroring. Wow. If your best complaint against TU is that it doesn't help you illicitly extend software trial periods, then I have no sympathy for you. Oh, and "Input Overload", the author is based in Romania. And democracy was not invented in the UK. But it's hilarious that you think so. And a "registry editor" does not monitor and undo changes to the registry and file system. Another shocking claim shot down. I'm beginning to lose track of all of them.
Rated 10/50 by Juhandra at Jan 22, 2011
This program does NOT what its name implements. the author left uncountable backdoors open for registration details and trial period detection, it silently (without your knowledge does NOT scan and does NOT revert these changes. Calling your tool TOTAL uninstall is in this case a shameless act, and cheating on your paying customers. Shame on you !
Rated 40/50 by halc at Jul 11, 2011
I have used my copy c. 1.5 years now. While being fairly happy with it in terms of performance, a couple of issues have prompted me to lower the rating. 1) Lately it has not been performing very well (I'm using 5.9.2 on Win7 X64). If I install and uninstall using Total Uninstall an application still leaves stuff behind and detects these later. I don't have time to start digging now with Systeinternal Tools, but clearly some files on my C: drive (all monitored) is left behind by the uninstaller. 2) The ability not to easily resolve uninstall conflict and control uninstall per app basis. This can lead to issues where I uninstall a later / newer file, installed by two different programs, when I use uninstall to remove one of them. Other than that and some UI issues (it could benefit from UX refactoring), it's a very decent program. I hope the author considers these issues for the next major update.
Rated 10/50 by ChipChop at Aug 16, 2011
"Extra safety checks " ???? Yeah right.....
Rated 50/50 by Lsavagejt at Aug 16, 2011
You can change the analysis profile from options. You can also see any "traces after uninstall" in Detected Changes and remove those manually if desired. In any case TU does a much better job than Windows' Add/Remove, is more secure than and without the "extras" that come with similar products, and I will continue to support this good product. Solid.