Author: ujecrh
Date: 01:58:35 10/16/98
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> >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. > There are many tools (eg cleansweep) that let you clean your disk and windows registry after uninstalling a program. They are quite efficient even to track hidden information written during install (both for DOS and Windows applications). Of course this kind of features should be provided (or at least a better standard should be set) by the OS ;-) ujecrh
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