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Bulk Crap Installer v4.5 Released (July 13, 2018)

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Spoiler: Changelog v4.5

Changelog

• Added console utility for scripting - fully automatic uninstalls
• Added quick filters menu and new filtering presets
• Added ability to filter appications by them having startup entries
• Added ability to hide automatized uninstaller windows (enabled by default)
• Added scrollbars to setting pages that can overflow to fix cutoffs
• Uninstaller automation window now has opacity when not focused
• Improved identification of dialog boxes during automation, fixes some rare problems
• Updated taskscheduler and dotnetzip libraries
• Updated manual
• Fixed possible resource leak
• Refactoring and minor bugfixes

 

Interesting app. I always used REVO but a ride around the block with this one shows some pretty good stats after a sweep and the speed is better than expected. Will put it thru the acid test and see how she fairs.

Thanks @mood

 

awesome and thank you

 

You're welcome

 

Bulk Crap Installer v4.6 Released (July 30, 2018)

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Spoiler: Changelog v4.6

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• Added support for Oculus store apps/games
• Added new property that marks apps as web browsers
• Added filtering option to show detected web browsers
• Added detection of unremovable Store Apps, mark them as protected components
• Added MS-PC2 to Spanish translation credits
• Added duplicate cache entry handling
• Use more generic rating id for StoreApps to keep ratings between versions
• Hide paths from some uninstall strings in the list view to reduce clutter
• Show more error information from failed uninstallers on the task list
• Improved formatting of store app helper output
• Made store app helper pass the hresult error back to BCU
• Fixed some Spanish and Italian translations not being used
• Fixed invalid metadata of UniversalUninstaller

 

love this program and thank you M

 

Bulk Crap Installer v4.7 Released (August 10, 2018)

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Spoiler: Additions and Improvements / Fixes v4.7

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Additions and improvements

• Added reading hidden uninstall strings (mostly Nvidia stuff)
• Made it clearer when uninstallation task finishes (sound and flashing)
• Improved app name detection for unregisted apps and startups
• Improved layout of uninstall task progress window
• Improved Uninstaller Automatizer button selection logic, can handle non-English button text now

Fixes

• Fixed Automatizer deamon trying to automatize other Automatizers
• Fixed Automatizer failing with invalid path error on some uninstall commands
• Fixed BCU-console not using its manifest file
• Fixed protected Windows updates having no uninstall strings generated instead of setting the Protected flag
• Fixed some uninstallers being wrongly marked as unregistered
• Fixed crash when changing filters as list is being closed
• Fixed crash when opening context menu as application list is updated
• Fixed crash when scanning for leftovers if there are invalid SteamApp entries
• Fixed crash when scanning startups in case of malformed registry security settings
• Fixed crash when updating certificate info on list
• Fixed potential crash in Oculus factory
• Fixed potential crash when saving settings
• Prevent newlines in helper outputs, fixes rare crashes during app scanning

 

thank you got it

 

This app is really growing on me. Full of useful details/settings.

Thanks for the update info

 

I may try it, now that it is v4.7. Very symbolic, those two #'s, for me!

 

Bulk Crap Installer v4.8 Released (September 01, 2018)
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Spoiler: Additions and Improvements / Fixes v4.8

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Additions and improvements

• Added scanning of drive roots for common application folders
• Added ability to scan removable drives for portable apps (off by default)
• Added detection of PortableApps and LiberKey portable app stores
• Added option to disable highlighting of special uninstallers (can completely disable colors on the list now)
• Added more descriptive error message when opening invalid uninstall lists
• Added check for Translations not added to supported cultures
• Added cache stat logging
• Improved accuracy of linking startups to applications
• Replaced references to CCleaner with BleachBit
• Specified support for Windos 10 in application manifest
• Standardized UpdateHelper I/O and error codes, fixes some crashes

Fixes

• Fixed store apps not being cached properly
• Fixed startups that point to invalid file paths causing errors
• Fixed possible NullRef crash when saving settings
• Fixed nullref crash in TryCacheItem
• Fixed invalid InstallLocations crashing AudioPolicy junk scan
• Fixed double dots in log file names
• Fixed crash when trying to get invalid cache entry
• Fixed crash when scanning services caused by WMI problems
• Fixed crash when closing UninstallProgressWindow with reboot prevention

 

awesome and thanks

 

You're welcome

 

Bulk Crap Installer v4.9 Released (September 20, 2018)

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Spoiler: Additions and Improvements v4.9

Changelog
Additions

• Added support for scripts (custom user-created list entries)
  • Added PowerShell Script uninstaller kind
• Added Tweaks (uses the new script functionality)
  • Added Tweak filtering
  • Added disable-subscribed-content script (stop automatic app downloads)
  • Added mouse acceleration disable script
  • Added script to disable easy access keyboard shortcuts
  • Added scripts to remove special folders from This PC
• Added Custom rules, Scripts and Tweaks section to readme

Translations

• Merged fr translation update by Thierry Delaunay and Orphée V.

Improvements and Changes

• Changed default portable install dir to C:\BCUninstaller
• Don't scan Steam size if not necessary
• OneDrive uninstallation will now remove explorer hooks (uses a script now)
• Improved setting save error logging
• Improved WindowsFeatureFactory fail message
• Increased default window height slightly

Fixes

• Fixed crash on some Japanese systems
• Fixed crash with invalid config files
• Fixed error when scanning services with badly formatted filenames

 

thank you

 

Awesome

 

I'm really looking forward to the next update which I thought might have been yesterday.
I am having a serious problem with one computer which prevents me from using BCUninstaller.
I got in touch with Marcin and was able to help him by sending him files from that computer.
Now I am waiting -all set to hit the "Donate" button.

 

Bulk Crap Installer v4.10 Released (October 2, 2018)
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Spoiler: Additions and Improvements v4.10

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Additions, Improvements and Changes

• Scan all physical disks at the same time for applications
• Use a second thread to scan application stores
• Added color blind friendly mode
• Added accessibility hints to search box
• Added "binaries" directories to program executable scanning
• Blacklist common DirectX redist directories from drive scan
• Added check to ensure that working directory is correct at start
• Increased rating cache lifetime
• Standardized additional store app scanners - they have the same output and log format now
• Hide unavailable filters in sidebar instead of just disabling them
• Enabled tabbing in startup wizard
• Tweaked list colors slightly

Translations

• Merged German translation update by Thomas W.
• Merged Slovenian translation update by Jadran Rudec
• Updated Polish translation
• Fixed wrong/invalid default extensions in some languages when loading/saving some files

Fixes

• Fixed "key doesn't exist" error when trying to remove a non-existing registry key
• Fixed crash when opening application registry key as list selection changes
• Fixed detection of shortcuts to unregistered Steam games failing
• Fixed dialog boxes showing in screen corner when main window is not visible
• Fixed some directories inside system directory not being detected as system dirs
• Fixed possible race condition in rating cache
• Fixed search box not being properly focused on startup
• Fixed tab focus ordering in some controls
• Fixed unhandled security exception in FirewallRuleScanner

 

Yahoo!
I've been checking hourly.
Many thanks

 

Right on and another great update!!

 

Excellent

 

Outstanding

 

Bulk Crap Installer v4.11 Released (October 19, 2018)
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Spoiler: Additions and Improvements v4.11

Changelog
Additions, Improvements and Changes

• Added multithreading to information gathering
• Added multithreading to registry scan
• Improved application merging logic, better memory use and speed
• Improved speed of predefined application scan
• Separated Script/tweak scanner into a new helper executable
• Updated OneDrive script information, override built-in windows entry
• Updated TaskScheduler library

Translations

• Merged German translation update by Thomas W.
• Fixed translator names not separated properly in about box

Fixes

• Fixed Chocolatey scan not working
• Fixed crash on closing loading dialog with null owner
• Fixed crashes in threaded directory scan
• Fixed running info adders out of order
• Fixed some info adders not being run in some cases
• Fixed inaccurate loading progress bar when merging
• Fixed settings failing to save on some systems
• Fixed some startup entries crashing the junk scan
• Fixed simple delete overriding other uninstallers in some cases

 

Hmmmmmmmmmmm
The program tells me that 4.10 is up to date.

I got an email regarding the update a little while ago so the system works. Of course, I had already updated all 5 computers.

 

thank you mood!!