Don't you just hate it when, after you've uninstalled a game or application from your Windows PC, you get all kinds of leftovers? It usually is the installation directory, empty. It may also be a registry key, no longer necessary. And the question is why.
Why do these people write so lousy uninstallation routines that leave annoying garbage behind? One would think I am talking about some third-class piece of software but no. I am talking about very popular games and applications by well-known, well-respected companies.
Maybe it's the whole "Windows Attitude" to spread files here and there, register a couple of components and forget half of them behind in the end. Maybe they just think nobody will ever want to remove their program (cause it's "so cool").
Being a programmer myself, I find it really irritating when others fail to do their job. Over time you will get a PC which will be slower due to a large number of redundant file system and registry entries that still have to be parsed by the OS. And of course there is the aesthetic part which calls for a nice "clean" system.
I want to look at my hard disk and find my currently installed software and files and NOT a history of my activities over the last two years. Is that too much to ask?
Why do these people write so lousy uninstallation routines that leave annoying garbage behind? One would think I am talking about some third-class piece of software but no. I am talking about very popular games and applications by well-known, well-respected companies.
Maybe it's the whole "Windows Attitude" to spread files here and there, register a couple of components and forget half of them behind in the end. Maybe they just think nobody will ever want to remove their program (cause it's "so cool").
Being a programmer myself, I find it really irritating when others fail to do their job. Over time you will get a PC which will be slower due to a large number of redundant file system and registry entries that still have to be parsed by the OS. And of course there is the aesthetic part which calls for a nice "clean" system.
I want to look at my hard disk and find my currently installed software and files and NOT a history of my activities over the last two years. Is that too much to ask?
2 comments:
Well, Installing and Uninstalling stuff is in fact a matter of Windows!
"Windows Installer" does very shitty things, as it cannot delete registry sh*t. It is some kind of "convinience" for future installs.
Visual studio has this feature, also capable of building theese annoying *.msi files (which are not executed by WINE in Linux)
BULLSHIT!
There are thousands of setup builders, like the one I use, that when you uninstall, it uninstalls EVERYTHING, and the files that cant't remove, you get a notification...
Is it so hard to clean everything? I mean arent they annoyed when garbage left in their own computers?
Damn stupidity!
As far as I know, Microsoft has issued a directive to software vendors, back from the time of Windows 98, NOT to use the registry. In Vista it simply denies access.
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