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InCtrl5 replacement?

  • Thread starter Dave \Crash\ Dummy
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Dave \Crash\ Dummy

Flightless Bird
One big disappointment when I upgraded from W2K to Windows 7 was that
InCtrl5, an old installation tracking program from PC Magazine, no
longer worked. I like its simplicity and lack of pretension about
"fixing" anything. It just records changes in files and the registry. Is
there such a program that is Windows 7 (64) compatible?

--
Crash

Atheism is a matter of faith, too.
 
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Dave-UK

Flightless Bird
"Dave "Crash" Dummy" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> One big disappointment when I upgraded from W2K to Windows 7 was that
> InCtrl5, an old installation tracking program from PC Magazine, no
> longer worked. I like its simplicity and lack of pretension about
> "fixing" anything. It just records changes in files and the registry. Is
> there such a program that is Windows 7 (64) compatible?
>
> --
> Crash
>

I use Total Uninstall ( but it's not free ).
http://www.martau.com/
 
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Mark Blain

Flightless Bird
"Dave \"Crash\" Dummy" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in news:DrmYn.15806
$dx7.15048@newsfe21.iad:

> One big disappointment when I upgraded from W2K to Windows 7 was that
> InCtrl5, an old installation tracking program from PC Magazine, no
> longer worked. I like its simplicity and lack of pretension about
> "fixing" anything. It just records changes in files and the registry. Is
> there such a program that is Windows 7 (64) compatible?

You may have missed this in PC Magazine's forums.

"Inctrl 5 working with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit"
http://discuss.pcmag.com/forums/thread/1004426190.aspx
 
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Dave \Crash\ Dummy

Flightless Bird
Mark Blain wrote:
> "Dave \"Crash\" Dummy" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in news:DrmYn.15806
> $dx7.15048@newsfe21.iad:
>
>> One big disappointment when I upgraded from W2K to Windows 7 was that
>> InCtrl5, an old installation tracking program from PC Magazine, no
>> longer worked. I like its simplicity and lack of pretension about
>> "fixing" anything. It just records changes in files and the registry. Is
>> there such a program that is Windows 7 (64) compatible?
>
> You may have missed this in PC Magazine's forums.
>
> "Inctrl 5 working with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit"
> http://discuss.pcmag.com/forums/thread/1004426190.aspx

I did. I will read it in detail and give it a try. Thanks!
--
Crash

"The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do."
~ B. F. Skinner ~
 
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Oldster

Flightless Bird
"Dave "Crash" Dummy" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> Mark Blain wrote:
>> "Dave \"Crash\" Dummy" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in
>> news:DrmYn.15806
>> $dx7.15048@newsfe21.iad:
>>
>>> One big disappointment when I upgraded from W2K to Windows 7 was that
>>> InCtrl5, an old installation tracking program from PC Magazine, no
>>> longer worked. I like its simplicity and lack of pretension about
>>> "fixing" anything. It just records changes in files and the registry. Is
>>> there such a program that is Windows 7 (64) compatible?
>>
>> You may have missed this in PC Magazine's forums.
>>
>> "Inctrl 5 working with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit"
>> http://discuss.pcmag.com/forums/thread/1004426190.aspx
>
> I did. I will read it in detail and give it a try. Thanks!
> --
> Crash
>
> "The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do."
> ~ B. F. Skinner ~
>

Read that forum thread, did the changes, but the program still fails
to work for me. I feel that somehow the environment does not get changed
properly. Anyway inctrl5 ends up with everything "greyed out", and I can't
type in any field. I'm running windows7 Ultimate.
Any thoughts?
 
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Dave \Crash\ Dummy

Flightless Bird
Oldster wrote:
>
> "Dave "Crash" Dummy" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> news:I7nYn.4343$Ls1.3025@newsfe11.iad...
>> Mark Blain wrote:
>>> "Dave \"Crash\" Dummy" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in
>>> news:DrmYn.15806 $dx7.15048@newsfe21.iad:
>>>
>>>> One big disappointment when I upgraded from W2K to Windows 7
>>>> was that InCtrl5, an old installation tracking program from PC
>>>> Magazine, no longer worked. I like its simplicity and lack of
>>>> pretension about "fixing" anything. It just records changes in
>>>> files and the registry. Is there such a program that is Windows
>>>> 7 (64) compatible?
>>>
>>> You may have missed this in PC Magazine's forums.
>>>
>>> "Inctrl 5 working with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit"
>>> http://discuss.pcmag.com/forums/thread/1004426190.aspx
>>
>> I did. I will read it in detail and give it a try. Thanks! -- Crash
>>
>>
>> "The real question is not whether machines think but whether men
>> do." ~ B. F. Skinner ~
>>
>
> Read that forum thread, did the changes, but the program still fails
> to work for me. I feel that somehow the environment does not get
> changed properly. Anyway inctrl5 ends up with everything "greyed
> out", and I can't type in any field. I'm running windows7 Ultimate.
> Any thoughts?

No, except that forum thread makes it too complicated. I am running 64
bit Windows 7 Ultimate, and all I had to do was right click on
InCtrl5.exe, select "Troubleshoot compatibility," and walk through the
steps. After that, I could successfully run InCtrl5 like any other program.
--
Crash

"The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion."
~ Arnold H. Glasow ~
 
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