Windows Installer CleanUp Utility

I rediscovered a handy utility at work today. It is the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility.

Have you ever installed a program that wouldn't uninstall properly and it stayed left behind in the Add/Remove Programs applet? The Windows Installer CleanUp Utility might be what you need to get rid of the traces that the program left behind.

We had a problem at work today where a vital firewall/antivirus program would not uninstall properly. We had to uninstall it so that we could install a newer, more updated version. The new one would not install until all traces of the old program were gone. We were stuck. After running the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility, however, the newer program installed fine.

Use this utility if you ever get stuck.

Download the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility here