Author: John Coffey
Date: 15:44:45 10/15/98
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On October 15, 1998 at 18:09:44, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >I'd like to add (I am not taking a pot-shot at John, only at the idea we >are talking about) that the concept of sticking files in oddball places >to hide them from the user is very similar to the concept of throwing >trash out your window while driving down the road. "It's only one piece >of trash, right, so it can't really hurt the environment..." > >Of course if *everybody* takes that approach, the world becomes a giant >litter-box. Ditto for programs. If everything I install stuff files into >odd places, my disk gets cluttered needlessly... > >But it's only one file... or one piece of trash... right? Well what you are saying isn't just me, but an inherent problem with Windows 95/98. It seems that instead of every program storing everything in its own private directory, it wants to store things in the registry or add dll files to windows/system. (Especially bad is ActiveX kind of stuff.) Every windows program does this to add dll's to your system. and most programs ad init information somewhere to your windows directory - the ones that don't use the registry. I don't like it, and I see it as a flaw of Windows, and I wish that when I delete a program that I could get rid of every byte that the program has taken up. Recently I reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled windows to deal with this problem. Now I agree with you most of the way, but let us have some perspective here. Files take up 4K. Compared with the 100's of K or megabytes that most windows programs dump in the \windows area (i.e. try to install something made with Visual Basic) then the two 4K files seem pretty minor. John Coffey
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