{"id":237484,"date":"2024-02-15T10:50:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T10:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uninstalr.com\/blog\/?p=237484"},"modified":"2024-02-15T10:50:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T10:50:31","slug":"uninstalr-2-0-or-why-making-this-windows-software-uninstaller-was-the-hardest-thing-i-have-ever-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uninstalr.com\/blog\/uninstalr-2-0-or-why-making-this-windows-software-uninstaller-was-the-hardest-thing-i-have-ever-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Uninstalr 2.0 – Or why making this Windows software uninstaller was the hardest thing I have ever done"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The morning rain is clouding up my window. I stare at the droplets sliding down the glass pane and I remember how as a kid I would imagine them to be like cars racing down to the bottom. I\u2019m thinking about how much I should tell you about what goes on behind the scenes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you don\u2019t want to read anything personal and you came here just to download my app, that\u2019s fine: You can skip all this and go to Uninstalr.com<\/a> and download it from there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will go down the memory lane a bit, because it\u2019s important for this story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I was a kid, my father bought me my first computer. That is what got me into computer sciences and by the time I was 10 years old, I had learned programming. I was 16 years old when I released my first real computer program. It was a free app called RegCleaner. Perhaps you have heard about it, maybe you even used it back in the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Six months ago I released the first version of Uninstalr. It is a freeware Windows app for uninstalling software. It came with two party tricks: You could select many apps and have them uninstalled in a batch without having to click through dozens of those \u201cAre you really sure?\u201d dialogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the second party trick was that it was very accurate in detecting data apps created to your system. Accurate, yes, but unfortunately not accurate enough. I\u2019ll get to that in a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To take a few more steps back, I need to explain that all this really started when I compared and benchmarked how well the common uninstaller software performed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s because that\u2019s the kind of man I am. I find these sorts of things interesting and I like to measure and benchmark and experiment with things. Opinions are great. But benchmarks are better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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