WinUAE exposing how crappy Windows is

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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.

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do a search for "CCleaner" with google ... learn how to use it and your system will thank  you! :-)

Well. Come back the next morning and see that you've hit a sore spot with others. ^~^ Oh the stories! Makes me appreciate the simplicity of installing something on Amiga. Put this file in C:, put that file in Libs:, put that file where-ever you want, put this line in user-startup.

A recent horror story is Ad-aware going to hell in a handbasket, and then the uninstall failing, and then Windows telling me that I can't erase the folder because certain files are connected to other files 'somewhere else'. Don't get me started on how much time I had to waste cleaning Norton out the system. The demo was the Aquaria demo. After finishing it, I ran the uninstall, but, there's still a folder with some random files left behind. Granted, its a few guys doing the programing, so perhaps you might get some sloppiness in housecleaning.