Windows’ native “Uninstall a program” utility is an extremely inefficient and cumbersome tool for removing programs from your machine.
In addition to being slow to display a list of installed applications and remove the ones selected, the removal process sometimes fails and almost always leaves behind traces of uninstalled programs which clutter up the Windows registry and slow your system down.
As luck would have it, there are several excellent third-party alternatives to Windows’ Uninstaller utility.
The one I like best is called GeekUninstaller because I have found it to be fast, extremely easy to use and incredibly thorough at removing all traces of uninstalled programs. [Read more…]