Product Guide
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Managing Programs To Free Disk Space
NOTE
You must be running Windows 98 or Windows 98 SE in order to
use the QuickClean BackTrack feature.
You can use the QuickClean Installation Monitor to watch applications as they
install making a record of every file that was added, deleted, or changed
during installation. Then, you can use the BackTrack wizard to completely
remove the monitored application from your computer and return all settings
to their previous values before the application was installed. You can set up
Installation Monitor in one of two ways:
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Set up BackTrack Monitor to run in the background continuously,
waiting for you to run an installation file with a specific name or from a
specific folder, or to install an application from a self-expanding
compressed file with the “.EXE” extension.
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Start BackTrack Monitor just before you install an application, and
specify the program that runs the application installation.
NOTE
Many installation programs start automatically as soon as you
insert a CD disc into your CD drive. To make sure that installations
from CDs are monitored, open the BackTrack Settings screen and
set BackTrack to monitor setup files before you insert the CD disc
into the drive.
Monitoring installation of a single program
If you’d prefer to run BackTrack Monitor only when you are actually installing
applications, follow these steps before installing your new program:
1
From the QuickClean Home Page, select Advanced tasks.
2
From the Advanced task list, select Manage installed programs.
3
Click Monitor a program with BackTrack.
4
Click the Monitor button.
Before installation actually starts, BackTrack Monitor saves Registry settings
and other information on your computer so that its original state can be
restored later if you choose to remove the application from your computer.
BackTrack a monitored program’s installation
Use the QuickClean BackTrack wizard to uninstall a program tracked by
BackTrack Monitor.
You cannot use the BackTrack wizard to undo the installation of an
application that BackTrack Monitor did not monitor. In this situation, use the
Remove wizard.
