Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 16:59:25 10/15/98
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On October 15, 1998 at 18:44:45, John Coffey wrote: >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 I understand your comment... but it is still "it's only one piece of trash, right?" Enough "one small piece" and you have "one large mountain."
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