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Re: WinUAE exposing how crappy Windows is
« on: July 09, 2010, 04:10:39 AM »
Quote from: Amiduffer;569590
I was using diskmaster with WinUAE last night on my Win7 Toshiba Satellite, and just for kicks, I started to poke around DH4: which is your windows "partition". Disturbingly, I started to run across programs and demos that I thought I had erased a while ago. 8( WTH! Are you telling me, that this "modern" operating system, and I use that term loosely, if you tell it to un-install a program, that it leaves all sorts of leftover crap?

I know that nothing ever gets really and truly "erased" from a harddrive without it physically being destroyed, but, this is rediculous! Geez. If I didn't need this digitizing program, I would have happily ditched Windows.


Quite old new there, as I understood your post all files from a regular uninstallation aint gone right? You can see quite alot of junk in your windows registry, now I got no clue what kind of files you where talking about tho, but run a quicky in regedit and youll find quite alot of junk.

Pease tell me what "programs and demos" as you called it you found, random roaming files? Old save folder? or did you just plain find it in the wTemp folder? Tell me more, since I got no clue what your definition is :)

Edit: A tip that I use is to allways run a registry reader when installing new apps/games and save the output, read trough it and when uninstalling something write a quicky that removes everything from the log associated with the installed application. That's atleast a good way to keep your register clean :)
« Last Edit: July 09, 2010, 04:14:43 AM by som99 »