Ashampoo Uninstaller 5 purports by its existence to do a better job of uninstalling programs than the uninstall procedures provided by the programs themselves. Perhaps the programs I installed to test Uninstaller 5 under Windows 7 had very good uninstall routines, but Uninstaller 5 didn't seem to do any better of a job than they did. But there are some ancillary functions are handy. See all Software reviews.
Ashampoo Uninstaller 5 works best when you use its installation monitoring service, which "logs" installations. Without a log, the program basically just runs the uninstaller provided by the software being removed. Using one of these logs for uninstalling delivered very good results. I found no junk remaining other than that created by programs while they were running post-install. But I found none with the normal uninstalls either.
Drive and registry cleaning are also part of the Ashampoo Uninstaller 5 package. But adding every file in the temp folder to a list and claiming each one as an individual problem is a bit of a stretch. Despite that, both work decently cleaning the detritus out of your system though there were still many references to Nero 12 Platinum--which was installed before I installed Ashampoo Uninstaller 5 and uninstalled using Ashampoo Uninstaller 5 without a log--in the registry after I ran the registry cleaner.
There's also a disk wiper (secure delete), duplicate file finder, file undeleter, and startup manager (which handles application startup items in addition to Windows startup items) in Uninstaller 5. Ashampoo might be doing a disservice to the program with its name, as it's actually a far more versatile tool than a mere uninstaller.
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