Each vendor, offering and such drops such wherever they want to. You have to reveal the program in question if you hope someone may have tips to clean that particular software.
Usually an e-mail or phone call will reveal what's what and where.
If a person is truly serious about this, they will install REGMON and FILEMON (use Google to locate please) to watch what registry and files a program installs for later use. Truly an experts tool, but it is possible to find out. Many will not do this amount of work.
Bob
OS WIN ME
Whenever you load a programme where you have to set parameters ,even though you uninstall, these parameters are stored. I have cleaned the registry using registry cleaner to no avail .
Would appreciate Suggestions

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