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Remove every trace of a program by reinstalling it
Authored by: robdew on Wed, Jul 9 2008 at 11:42AM PDT

This is a very nice hint and VERY cool tool, but the premise is wrong. Not every installer will change every file during an installation, and many applications generate files only after they've been launched.