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                      RemoveR Shareware- $5 / £3
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     More documentation, and the RemoveR FAQ can be found at
    http://homepages.enterprise.net/dodgy on the shareware page

*FOR THE VERY LATEST VERSION OF REMOVER BE SURE TO CHECK THE WEB PAGE*

Fed up with trying various shareware packages from CDs or the Net and
having them spew files all over your drives ? If you are RemoveR is for
you.

Sadly not all programs come with uninstall utilities (and those that
do often miss files). To get around this I developed RemoveR.

Simply scan the harddrive of your choice before installing a piece of
software, RemoveR will take a snapshot of your files and save it.
You can then install your software, decide its not for you, then rerun
RemoveR to tell you whats been changed on your harddrive. Once the
changed are listed you can chose to delete files, or to save the list
so that you can uninstall the program at a later date.

Main Buttons

Drive Selector : This selects what drive RemoveR will scan.

Update Scan Database : This will take a snapshot of the drive selected
 in the drive selection box

Find Changes : This will compare the current status of your files with
 that last stored. All files that have been added/deleted will be shown
 on the results screen. From this screen you can highlight certain
 files & directories and delete them, or save the list for later
 deletion.

Uninstall Using Saved Data File : Takes a previously saved list of
 files (saved from the results screen) and allows you to select some
 or all of them for deletion.

Preferences : Allows you to specify directories that you wish to ignore
 such as C:\TEMP or the MS Explorer cache directory etc ... Also allows
 you to set a preference so that RemoveR will only monitor your
 WINDOWS directory (and all sub-directories beneath). This leads to a
 huge speed gain if this is all you are interested in.


Other things to know :

* RemoveR will always ignore hidden files.
* If you try to delete a directory from the results screen it will
   produce an alert if the directory is not empty. Often, if you are
   deleting all of the files within the directory, reclicking delete
   will delete it sucessfully.

Windows95/NT(3.51+) users, run RmvR32.exe

(If you have both the 16 Bit and 32 Bit versions of RemoveR then stick
to one version, they each store their database in a different
format - using one to make it and one to read it is ASKING for trouble)

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RemoveR is Shareware. If you like it, please send $5/£3 to help a young
programmer out :-) ... if $5/£3 is a lot of money to you, send
something else.

I really have worked hard on this program, and I reckon it offers more
than a number of commercial packages that claim to be Uninstallers or
Removers (plus they can cost £30 .... this is a mere £3).

If you have any comments/bugs feel free to mail me - I'll do what I can
to help you out. Registering isn't mandatory for support.

Chris Harris, 1 Ashford Road, Taunton, Somerset, TA1 5DH, England.
(address valid until at least 1998... and probably beyond)

Mail : dodgy@enterprise.net

Web : http://homepages.enterprise.net/dodgy

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Version 1.61

 * Small, but fatal, bug fix regarding true-colour screens and the
     startup bitmaps.

Version 1.6

 * More aesthetically pleasing screens

 * Fixed a bug with the ignore list that caused it not to function
    under certain circumstances

 * Solved the problem of people experiencing colour-changing of their
    windows setups. The bitmaps used in RemoveR are optimised for
    1000's of colours but shouldn't now look that bad under 256 or 16.

 * Added a registration screen to personalise RemoveR

 * Added the preference to only scan the Windows directory and
    sub-directories (as RemoveR used to be in Version 1.3).

 * Slightly speeded up finding changes.

 * Fixed a bug with the uninstall using saved data file routine.

Version 1.52

 * Fixed a bug made visible in v1.5/1 Now that I am scanning the whole
    of a drive there is a lot more files scanned. The location where I
    store the files was becoming full resulting in out of memory errors
    (more frequently in Windows 3.x). Sadly it wasn't a simple job of
    increasing a number somewhere, it was much much more complex. I
    have incorporated some changes and RemoveR will now function with
    up to 12,000 files on any one drive. I can increase this if anyone
    has the need ...

 * Updated the splash screen to replect the new version number. (Forgot
    to do it for 1.51 !!!)

Version 1.51

 * Fixed a fantastically serious bug that meant Remover wouldn't run on
    and volume with a volume label, and it never freed any resources, and
    hence ran out of memory on almost every PC (apart from mine!).
    Hopefully this solves both problems. RemoveR 1.5 was never distributed
    to winsite and was only on my web site for a day, so it is really
    unlikely you actually ever got it !

Version 1.5

 * I was getting in a serious mess with my version numbering. This
    version is 1.5 - the previous version was 1.3 or 1.03, depending
    on where you looked!

 * Huge changes .... I implemented a new search routine that I cooked
    up one night - turns out its 400% faster than the old one. As a
    result of this I have added the most-requested-functionality, that
    of being able to search the whole of your drive(s).

 * As I added the ability to search your whole drive I thought i'd
    better add the functionality of setting directories for RemoveR to
    ignore. This, out of interest, was the second-most-requested change
    ever.

 * Added a remover.ini file to the windows directory to store your
    ignore list.

 * Forms now centered on the screen, should be able to see all of them
    with all resolutions now !

 * Spelling mistake fixed :-)

 * Added splash screen & more fancy about screen.

 * Now detects directories that have been added, as well as files

 * If you are a registered user I made your name appear more often in
    the lower bar, it all too frequently seemed to disappear.

 * To try to help users who have downloaded previous versions of
    RemoveR I will try to post the updated EXE file on my web site
    for download, thus saving you downloading the install utility again

 * Jazzed up text file

Version 1.3

 * A bug was fixed that only occured in exceptional circumstances.

 * This version is out earlier then I wanted, and as such has a lot
    of features I was hoping to include missing. This will be rectifed
    in v1.4. I was forced to upload this as Winsite had somehow
    corrupted the rmvr32.zip file. Sorry it took me so long to fix but
    British Telecom has taken 2 weeks to fix my telephone - on the
    upside they did pay me over 120UKP compensation :-)

Version 1.2

 * Included the runtime files. My mailbox was exploding with people
    wanting these !! This makes the distributable larger, so sorry to
    all those who had these files... this is for the benefit of those
    who haven't.

 * Now shipped as a separate 16 Bit and 32 Bit application. The 32-Bit
    version is Long Filename Aware, the 16 Bit version isn't.

 * Changed my email address & web address.


Version 1.1

 * Added the ability to save the search result, to enable uninstalling
    at a future date. To do this just click 'Save Search' when you have
    performed a scan. This data is saved into a file, and the program
    can be uninstalled at a later date. To uninstall a saved file, just
    click the button on the main screen.

Version 1.0

 * First Release.

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What now ?

* Increase speed of finding changes. The searching is now lightning
  fast, the program is let down on the comparison speeds, I am now
  going to work on these.

* Things I plan to incorporate when I get the time include the much
  requested scanning of registry changes in Win95. This may take some
  time though .....

* Adapt the application for other languages. If you feel you would like
  to translate the text used in RemoveR into your native language then
  please contact me .... I will of course provide you with a mention, 
  and registration code for your trouble

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