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This Quick Start Guide is designed to help you use Uninstall Manager’s Sandbox feature from the moment you download a new software product you wish to install to your handheld, until you are ready to remove it from your device.

Overview

Sandbox mode: Keep applications away from your device before you decide to keep them!
When using the Sandbox mode to install new applications, you can quickly evaluate and completely remove them if you choose to. You can also keep multiple Sandboxes on the expansion card to quickly retest applications in the future.

Make sure the Sandbox is active from within the Settings dialog:

Please note:

• We recommend to install one application at a time since Uninstall Manager will prompt you to delete any remaining files (files that do not share its Creator ID) installed alongside the application after deleting it.

- Uninstall Manager monitors each application individually for saving files and preferences.

• You should install the application to the RAM (Main Memory) first since Card installations are not monitored by Uninstall Manager and the Sandbox will not work.

- Uninstall Manager monitors applications launched from the card for saving hidden items.

1. Download and extract the Zip file containing the application you wish to install to your handheld:

2. Double Click the files and add them to the HotSync File Installer:

Note: The installation destination is: Handheld

3. By pressing the button on your cradle, initiate the HotSync process and download the files to your device.

4. When the HotSync process is complete, Uninstall Manager will pop-up the Sandbox dialog:

In this dialog Uninstall Manager lists all files that were just installed and allows you to Remove files from the Sandbox, Cancel the Sandbox completely, or launch the application inside the Sandbox: Select Start.

5. After selecting Start, the application will be launched.

The Sandbox allows you to test the application while making sure it doesn’t change any settings or adds any hidden files to your device.

6. When you finish testing the application, select the Home icon to exit from the application back to the Application Launcher.

Uninstall Manager is on guard and will display a list of all files running inside the Sandbox and any additional files created by the application that was running inside the Sandbox:

This dialog allows you to Return to the application and keep testing it, Quit the Sandbox completely (choose Quit Sandbox if you want to keep the application on your device), Delete the application and files from your device or Move all files in the Sandbox to the expansion card allowing you to keep the application in a protected Sandbox until you are ready to test it again.

7. Select Move to move all files to the expansion card. When the process is complete, Uninstall Manager will open, switching to the Sandbox view from which you can relaunch the Sandbox in the future:

Select Launch to copy all Sandbox files from the card to the RAM (Main Memory) and to launch the application as if it was just installed for the first time using the HotSync Manager (go back to Step 5).

Note: There is a slight difference between installing a brand new application and launching the Sandbox from the card: Since the application might have saved settings and created new files when you first launched it; these files and changed settings will be available to the application inside the Sandbox (the settings and files were kept on the card).

This time, after exiting the application, you have selected Quit to quit the Sandbox and keep the application on your device.
The application is visible using Uninstall Manager’s Applications view:

8. When the time comes and you wish to delete the software: Open the Delete dialog from within your default Application Launcher and select the application:

Note: If you are not using the Replace Default Delete (see the user manual under Settings Dialog); to completely delete applications, open Uninstall Manager, select the application and tap Uninstall.

9. When using the Replace Default Delete feature:

Selecting Delete will delete the application.
There is one small problem: The built in delete function only deletes files and preferences that share the same Creator ID with the application. If the application created files under a different Creator ID than its own, or certain files installed alongside the application were not deleted, Uninstall Manager will interrupt the normal deletion process showing the following dialog:

10. Select View to display all remaining files that belong to the application:

 

Select Delete to the delete the remaining files.

• If the application created files or saved preferences under a different Creator ID than its own, these items will be displayed as well, allowing complete removal of the application.