Smart Uninstaller - some form of Cancel

[Xander]

I've had a couple of uninstallers lately either lock up or, as with the one on the work bench right now, finish but not be recognized as having stopped. As a result, SU just sits there and there's no way out of it without killing the process. The SR section has a "stop monitoring" option, maybe SU could use it as well?

[Fred]

Xander, the Smart uninstaller also has a Stop monitoring button, which should be displayed for each program about 10 seconds after the uninstall process begins. Didn't it show up?

[Xander]

It's probably showing up but it's not there at the *end* of an uninstall when I've been needing it. Rather than being there for just 10 seconds, couldn't it just stay in the windows like it does in the SR section?

[Fred]

I didn't say it stayed for 10 seconds. I said it shows up about ten seconds after launching the uninstaller. UVK needs a few seconds to check out if the application spawns other processes, and ensure all of them closed before moving on.

Sometimes you may need to be patient. It may seem the application is already uninstalled, but it may still be doing something in the background.

I'll check it out anyway. Thanks.

[Fred]

I checked it out, and you were right. It was not showing up anymore, because of a late code change. I fixed it and uploaded a new beta. I'll be releasing a new update soon. Thanks again.

[Xander]

When it started the set on this laptop, I did see the Stop Monitoring but I just finished uninstalling an expired McAfee, picked "Restart Later". window closed and....

Had to kill the UVK process to continue.

Had the same problem a few minutes later removing Pokki Start Menu.

[Fred]

Ok, Xander. Thanks for reporting. I'll check that out.

[Xander]

Still coming up from time to time...

I recognize that this is using Forced Uninstall (didn't realize I'd had that checked) but it was sitting there for ~5 minutes before I had to kill UVK's process.