User manual MCAFEE UNINSTALLER 6.0

[. . . ] McAfee UnInstaller User's Guide Version 6. 0 COPYRIGHT Copyright 1999 Network Associates, Inc. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form or by any means without the written permission of Network Associates, Inc. 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All other registered and unregistered trademarks in this document are the sole property of their respective owners. [. . . ] For example, if you have several Adobe applications, you might move them into individual subfolders in a main Adobe folder. Moving an application does not change its position in the Windows Start menu Programs list. How can I monitor installation? The UnInstaller BackTrack wizard can restore your system to the state it was in before you installed a monitored application. You can use the UnInstaller Installation Monitor to watch applications as they install making a record of every file that was added, deleted, or changed during installation. Then, you can use the BackTrack wizard to completely remove the monitored application from your computer and return all settings to their previous values before the application was installed. You can set up Installation Monitor in one of two ways: Set up BackTrack Monitor to run in the background continuously, waiting for you to run an installation file with a specific name or from a specific folder, or to install an application from a self-expanding compressed file with the . EXE extension. Start BackTrack Monitor just before you install an application, and specify the program that runs the application installation, as described in "How do I monitor installation of a single application?, " on page 25. How do I set BackTrack Monitor to run in the background? To keep BackTrack Monitor active while you work on your computer: 1. Click Settings on the Options menu in the main UnInstaller screen. User's Guide 23 Managing Applications 2. Setting BackTrack Monitor options To run Installation Monitor automatically in the background while you work, you must select either or both of the options on the BackTrack page. When BackTrack Monitor detects an installation program, it displays a message box where you can choose whether to monitor the installation. TIP: Many installation programs start automatically as soon as you insert a CD disc into your CD drive. To make sure that installations from CDs are monitored, open the Settings dialog box and set BackTrack to monitor setup files before you insert the CD disc into the drive. How do I monitor installation of a single application? If you'd prefer to run BackTrack Monitor only when you are actually installing applications, follow these steps: 24 McAfee UnInstaller Managing Applications 1. In the Windows taskbar, right-click the Guardian icon, point to UnInstaller, and click Launch Installation Monitor. (By default, the icon is located in the lower-right corner of your screen near the clock. ) 2. In the dialog box that appears, click Browse to find and select the installation program that you want to monitor. Installation programs are usually named Setup. exe, CDsetup. exe, and so on. Before installation actually starts, BackTrack Monitor saves Registry settings and other information on your computer so that its original state can be restored later if you choose to remove the application from your computer. How do I undo an application installation that I monitored? Use the UnInstaller BackTrack wizard to undo the installation of an application that was tracked by BackTrack Monitor. + WARNING: You cannot use the BackTrack wizard to undo the installation of an application that BackTrack Monitor did not monitor. In this situation, use the Remove wizard. To undo an application installation: 1. Click BackTrack in the main UnInstaller screen to start the BackTrack wizard. The BackTrack wizard processes the archive to determine what it needs to undo. At this point if you're interested, you can click Details to see what BackTrack will do to individual files, and when you're finished reviewing this information, click OK to return to the BackTrack wizard screen. Let BackTrack use its judgment to decide which files you still need and which files should be removed or replaced. [. . . ] You can also create a compressed file archive by compressing more than one individual file into a single compressed file container. UnInstaller uses this method of storing backup copies of files deleted by SpaceMaker and using the PowerClean feature. You use the same program to expand a compressed file as you used to compress the file. One of the best known compression programs for Windows is WinZip, a shareware program that is available from the Internet. What is an autoexpanding compressed file? An autoexpanding compressed file immediately expands all of the files that it contains when you double-click the file name. [. . . ]