Re: uninstallation

[Mitch Stone <mstone@vc.net>]

In reply to Steve Cohen's message sent 1/22/98 5:23 AM:

>But, but, but...
>and this is the reason I've never bothered with such products, don't you have
>to have had Clean Sweep installed first, in order for it to work?  That is,
>Clean Sweep knows nothing about programs that were installed before it was?

All this technical discussion on un-installation is fascinating, but begs 
the question. Why does the removal of applications need to be such a 
hassle? Why should installing applications create tangled masses of 
mysterious files the purpose of which can only be devined by experts? 
Lest it escape our attentions, this prime example Windows brain-dead 
design is providing Microsoft with no small amount of cover from the 
Justice allegations and Judge Jackson's order.

Windows users may have grown (sadly) accustomed to such 
knuckle-headedness, but that can't excuse the fact that it is a totally 
unnecessary, if not deliberate, "feature" of Windows. If Larry Lessig 
intends to pose some tough questions for Microsoft's engineers, he might 
start with this one.

   Mitch Stone
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