User manual MCAFEE UNINSTALLER 6.0

[. . . ] McAfee UnInstaller User's Guide Version 6. 0 COPYRIGHT Copyright 1999 Network Associates, Inc. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form or by any means without the written permission of Network Associates, Inc. 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All other registered and unregistered trademarks in this document are the sole property of their respective owners. [. . . ] Click Settings on the Options menu in the main UnInstaller screen. User's Guide 23 Managing Applications 2. Click the BackTrack button, and specify what you want to monitor. Setting BackTrack Monitor options To run Installation Monitor automatically in the background while you work, you must select either or both of the options on the BackTrack page. When BackTrack Monitor detects an installation program, it displays a message box where you can choose whether to monitor the installation. TIP: Many installation programs start automatically as soon as you insert a CD disc into your CD drive. To make sure that installations from CDs are monitored, open the Settings dialog box and set BackTrack to monitor setup files before you insert the CD disc into the drive. How do I monitor installation of a single application? If you'd prefer to run BackTrack Monitor only when you are actually installing applications, follow these steps: 24 McAfee UnInstaller Managing Applications 1. In the Windows taskbar, right-click the Guardian icon, point to UnInstaller, and click Launch Installation Monitor. (By default, the icon is located in the lower-right corner of your screen near the clock. ) 2. In the dialog box that appears, click Browse to find and select the installation program that you want to monitor. Installation programs are usually named Setup. exe, CDsetup. exe, and so on. Click Monitor to start installing the application. Before installation actually starts, BackTrack Monitor saves Registry settings and other information on your computer so that its original state can be restored later if you choose to remove the application from your computer. How do I undo an application installation that I monitored? Use the UnInstaller BackTrack wizard to undo the installation of an application that was tracked by BackTrack Monitor. + WARNING: You cannot use the BackTrack wizard to undo the installation of an application that BackTrack Monitor did not monitor. In this situation, use the Remove wizard. To undo an application installation: 1. Click BackTrack in the main UnInstaller screen to start the BackTrack wizard. In the first BackTrack wizard screen, click Next. Select the BackTrack archive from the list and click Next again. The BackTrack wizard processes the archive to determine what it needs to undo. At this point if you're interested, you can click Details to see what BackTrack will do to individual files, and when you're finished reviewing this information, click OK to return to the BackTrack wizard screen. + WARNING: Do not change the selection of any of the files. Let BackTrack use its judgment to decide which files you still need and which files should be removed or replaced. Click Next. User's Guide 25 Managing Applications The BackTrack wizard removes the application and returns Registry settings to the values that were in effect before the application was installed. [. . . ] You use the same program to expand a compressed file as you used to compress the file. There are many file compression programs available. One of the best known compression programs for Windows is WinZip, a shareware program that is available from the Internet. What is an autoexpanding compressed file? An autoexpanding compressed file immediately expands all of the files that it contains when you double-click the file name. The extension of an autoexpanding compressed file is . EXE, just like the extension of an application. [. . . ]