Actually, this Control Panel move operates well when there isn’t an uninstalled present.
It will in that case tell you the app looks already uninstalled, and ask if you want to remove it from the list.
I’ve never had trouble with this; always worked and especially with Scrivener cleanup, but of course, we’re dealing with Windows, so there may be a case where it doesn’t…!
There are a few cases where the uninstall artifacts get wedged firmly enough this trick doesn’t help remove them, unfortunately.
It doesn’t ask that question. It pretends to uninstall but fails. I bought a cheap (yet WAY over-priced for what it does) registry cleaner to do what Control Panel should do.
To be fair, on the Mac, I uninstall by sending an app to the trash … which leaves all manner of things in Application Support, but it’s invisible there. The annoyance is seeing the dead app in Control Panel and the fact that I can’t simply go to Application Support and delete the remnants.