Re: [ARSCLIST] Recommended software to make an iPod dump its library to iTunes on a second computer

[Mike Richter <mrichter@xxxxxxx>]

Tom Fine wrote:
> Wow, Frank, good to know. That is toxicware, for sure. And it is not 
> Windows-standard so Microsoft should have warned you on install. As I 
> understand it, to avoid the "not XP standard" warning, your software 
> must have a full-uninstall utility.
>
> In XP, you can "wind back the hands of time" to before the install, but 
> anything you changed from the install forward would also be lost.
>
> -- Tom Fine

Unfortunately, the XP Goback Machine, like its predecessors, is limited. 
It can undo entries, but cannot reverse some changes - and it is those 
changes which are most insidious with QT. As a trivial example, when 
QT's associations are removed, it does not know what associations were 
there before. Whether iTunes is better, I cannot say since I will not 
let it into my system.

The only reliable removal tool is restoring a full backup at least of 
the OS and applications. (I keep data on separate partitions so such a 
restore is only moderately painful.)

Mike
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