Author: Jay Rinde
Date: 06:40:02 10/16/98
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On October 16, 1998 at 04:58:35, ujecrh wrote: >> >>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 I really wish your information was correct! While some shareware programs will trust you to pay after a 30 day trial, some don't and there is no easy way to get the "hidden" stuff out of your system. Cleansweep or any other of these utilities are of no help. These programmers are smart and they don't like people using their product without paying. At one time you could search through their install or exe files (or whatever) and change a date or find where they put their stuff. It is no longer worth looking for limiters. It could be any place and it could be disguised. These programmers are real jerks. They don't want us to steal their work. They want us to pay. They should know better. Anyway, commercial programs also dump stuff in the system which uninstallers like Cleansweep don't record for whatever reason. Anyway, if you want to give advice, please give advice which is useable. I'd like to know how to get rid of some of this junk so I could steal other peoples work! (no, I don't really want to sreal anything. These guys work hard. If you want their product, you should pay!) How I carry on. Sorry.
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