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Remove every trace of a program by reinstalling it
Authored by: Peganthyrus on Wed, Jul 9 2008 at 3:18PM PDT

Looking at the .bom only works for stuff that goes through the system installer; most custom installers don't seem to leave a log anywhere consistent, if at all.

So if you wanna destroy every trace of what, say, Adobe's hideous installer did to your system, this hint would be a good place to start.