What to do when an application installation goes bad
The other day I was helping a fellow who had interrupted an installation of Microsoft Office 2010. The installation was taking a long time and my customer suspected that it had hung. So he cancelled the installation and watched it roll back the actions that had been taken. Then he tried to start the installation again and discovered that the installation software would start and then, almost immediately fail. I have seen the same behavior before and especially with Itunes software. This has to do with programs that don’t entirely remove themselves when you do an uninstall. It was in one of these instances that I discovered The Revo Pro Uninstaller. This piece of software, which is updated regularly is excellent to use when a piece of software is partially installed and won’t install or uninstall.
Revo Pro Uninstaller first uses the application’s own uninstaller, then deletes files, folders and registry entries exclusively for the program it has been told to uninstall. In the case of the failed Microsoft Office 2010 installation, after running Revo and rebooting the system, the Office 2010 installation ran to completion successfully.
Here comes the caution: The Revo Uninstaller is a powerful program. This program is deleting stuff and that can be dangerous. It will do what you tell it to. Just be absolutely sure you are telling it the right things.
