🚀 go-pugleaf

On Dec 21, 6:29 pm, Lookout <mrLook...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:50:20 -0500, jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv@aol> wrote:
> >Bluuuue Rajah wrote:
> >> "philo" <ph...@privacy.net> wrote in
> >>news:WbmdnV8eb4a2HdDUnZ2dnUVZ_gKdnZ2d@ntd.net:
>
> >>> "Bluuuue Rajah" <Bluuuuue@Rajah.> wrote in message
> >>>news:Xns9B7AB9C822192fdgdfjhsrtg@207.115.17.102...
> >>>> Everybody rightly criticizes Micro$tiff for selling a crappy OS, and
> >>>> Linux is obviuosly better, if you have the time and the expertise to
> >>>> use in it, but until this week I didn't understand exaclty why
> >>>> Windows is such a POS.
>
> >>>> When I had to uninstall the Google toolbar because Google installed
> >>>> an update tht I didn't ask for, which overrode IE5's ctrl-f command,
> >>>> the reason beame clear.  Windows' install/uninstall method causes
> >>>> bugs to accumulate, if programs are not ununstalled in precise the
> >>>> reverse order of which they were installed.
>
> >>>> The problem is that terrible method of saving old copies of system
> >>>> files, like .ini files, as backups, to be restored when software is
> >>>> uninstalled.  So the more apps you uninstall, out of order, the
> >>>> buggier your system becomes, until you finally have to reinstall the
> >>>> OS.
>
> >>>> Linux apparently doesn't have anything resembling this problem, which
> >>>> makes me wonder, how did the Linux designers (Torvald?) handle this
> >>>> problem, and can we learn anything from their solution to help
> >>>> minimize the problem with Windows?
>
> >>>> Your thoughts?
>
> >>> I've been using Linux almost as long as I've been using Windows.
>
> >>> Linux is not immune from it's own problems...
> >>> and unless one is very familiar with Linux...the problems can
> >>> sometimes be harder to sort out.
>
> >>> That said, with a little bit of common sense, Windows should not
> >>> require a re-install.
> >>> I run mainly Win2k and XP and they have both been running 99% +
> >>> trouble free for *many* years.
>
> >> You're living in a fantasy world.  Everybody knows that Windows slowly
> >> accumulates bugs.  They've known almost from day one, when people
> >> started griping about what a POS it was.
>
> >Every OS accumulates bugs.  That's reality, son.
>
> >/BHA
>
> Not if your regularly use a registry cleaner. I use FixIt Utilities
> and to delete invalid or no longer need registry entries and files.

Thats just great!

Does it also clean up unused desktop icons? </sarkasm>