Author: John Coffey
Date: 09:16:10 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 My last experience with Cleansweep wasn't so positive. John Coffey >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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