Uninstall routines (in general) are teh sux
Tonight I have decided to do some house cleaning on my hard drive. For me, this means uninstalling software that I don't use much or installed just to review a product. So I'm in Add/Remove Programs and I'm going down the list, uninstalling quite a few applications.
So far, only 1 out of 13 have entirely cleaned up the files they installed on my computer. That's pathetic. The one that did a good job? Some overclocking program for my ASUS motherboard.
Look, to anyone out there that makes install and/or uninstall routines. Please make sure that your un-installer does AT LEAST the following:
- Deletes the directory it made in my Program Files directory.
- Removes any information it created in the registry related to itself (unless I tell it not to for some bizarre reason). This means COM/DLL registration stuff.
- If your install created any sample web applications, remove your directory in my wwwroot directory and remove your web app from my IIS website(s).
Is that asking too much, really? You'd think so based on my results so far.