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In article <c0nfim$554$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk>, 
"Phoenix" <invalid@invalid.com> wrote:
>
>"Steven Burn" <services@it-mate.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:c0mkn6$18i3gn$1@ID-213556.news.uni-berlin.de...
>wrote in message
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>> There are 2 ways for a software developer to do this. The most common being
>> the registry. As this is the most well known, it is slowly being taken
>> over by the second method.
>>
>> The second method involves placing a file in some misc folder (such as the
>> Windows\System folder), that tells the program when it was installed, and
>> if it was registered (along with some other generic misc info).
>>
>> Tracking the file down is not very easy as it is normally encoded in binary
>> and placed in an obscure file such as a .dll that few people are going to
>> think of looking in.
>>
>> Of course, there is most likely other ways to do this that I've not thought
>> of, but off the top of my head, the above are the two msot common methods
>> I know of.
>
>I would have thought it possible to capture everything with (my personal
>favourite) Total Uninstall. Folders created and dll's dumped in \system
>certainly are, along with registry entries (including the ones the developer
>deliberately leaves out of his uninstall routine).
>
>Bad sectors are another issue. I would hope this is an urban legend, I would
>take great exception to someone doing this to my machine. I'm waiting for

See Maria's post in response to mine, outlining her unhappy experience 
trying to uninstall a Delphi 7 trial copy using TU.  [Message-ID: 
<6dsuuh7ny911$.dlg@ID-187316.user.uni-berlin.de>]

Though that doesn't necessarily prove the "bad sector" legend, it does 
seem to indicate something too devious for your uninstaller to work 
around.

I wonder if anyone else has had experience of this sort, whether with 
Total Uninstall or other such programs designed to protect the user 
from the remnants of defective or useless software?

>the day that I see an installer tell me it can't proceed because I'm using
>monitoring software, although I do recall that the old "Cleansweep" used to
>cause some problems in it's time.


Cheers, Phred.

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