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Can any Uninstaller accurately monitor an installation?
So many Uninstaller programs e.g. Advanced Uninstaller Pro, Revo, and others, claim to be able to monitor a program's installation process and later assure that changes made by that process can be reversed. But at least Advanced Uninstaller Pro comes clean by stating you have to "close all other running programs" while the program-in-question is being monitored. Otherwise, things being done in the background by other programs get monitored too, and if you later Uninstall you make a mess of any of those not to mention Windows.
AIP in that link says "You can easily avoid all problems if you remember to close all programs before monitoring an installation" but come on, "easily"? Sure you can readily stop running applications, but what about all the other backgrounders you might have, including services?
Also, most Uninstallers say to "let the monitoring continue if the installation requires a reboot, and then run the program once also before stopping the monitoring & saving the log" or some such verbiage. How can you reboot to a clean system and avoid these Monitors from monitoring other processes that are dynamically altering your system? Heck W7 has lots of "scheduled tasks" that run on boot, doing stuff in the background...
I don't see how any of these Uninstallers can possibly work, unless perhaps you install in Safe Mode and reboot to Safe Mode thru the process (but might not this create other problems for the installed program and its monitor). Can someone help me to understand, or are all 3rd-party uninstallers not-to-be-trusted?