You want nothing newer than DT3.xx from Oldversion.com

For newer OSes, there are better software packages that are clean and no-nonsense.

Anything newer, and the creators decided that they needed to bundle crapware that does really awful shit.

As for removal... That's always been a problem with Windows. SO MANY places for software to install their garbage to that is out of the way and unobtrusive (because it would confuse the poor end user's little minds if they saw it-- or because it might interfere with sending gobs and gobs and gobs of data to the F*CKING MOTHERSHIP if users knew it was there, and enacted measures to lock it down--- /$USER$/APPDATA/LOCAL/ROAMING_LOW and "/$SYTEM_ROOT$/APPLICATION DATA", respectively) so nobody will ever look there. (In addition to any of the OTHER places it might install it. Of which there are like 4 or 5 more. WHY? Because Microsoft cant pick a schema and stick with it for more than 1 windows release. Apparently, along with all the legacy applications out there that followed the new directives when they came out, and want to put things in those new places, that have now been obsoleted, because microsoft cant pick a schema and stick with it...)

Anyway-- there ARE tools to help you try and remove some of that crap after uninstallation, but the quality and safety of such software is a crapshoot.

Some notable examples are:

Malware bytes (freeware version!! FREEWARE VERSION!! Do not mistake the full version as being better, it is A LIE!)
Hijack THIS! (a bit long in the tooth now, but still good for removing things that conjoin themselves to Internet Explorer, or into the loadable modules list for the winsock API. Did you know that was a thing? APPARENTLY IT IS! Thanks microsoft!)
CCleaner (Be apprised, it itself wants to install stupid shit lately, for the same kind of reasons that Daemon Tools Lite does.. Caveat emptor.)

Last non-intrusive version was 4.49. There are packages without anything.

the version that installs 2 applications, that you can uninstall later, i consider non-intrusive too.

not sure if there was something later that adds commercials to browsers and maybe os, but can be uninstalled in add/remove programs
i would consider that as non-intrusive too.

the funny thing is that daemon installed avast, which now finds daemon as malware 😉

Guys, I found solution for mounting a Mixed Mode CD (Data + Audio on same CD), go there:
Re: PSA: Alcohol 120% Free Edition is Adware. If you really need to use it, do it on an air-gapped system.

GL & HF 😉

robertmo3 wrote on 2024-05-04, 04:58:

anyone got some tricks how to clean that up easily after installation?
or maybe is there some last good version?

I remember my installation allowed me to choose what I want to install.

I remember the times without tv commercials 😉

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