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Old March 20th 09, 06:46 AM posted to alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
Andrew Hamilton
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Default Registry cleaners ???

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:49:08 -0000, "Mick" wrote:




Jacksons Structured Programming springs to mind.
When i was learning the black art of COBOL programming many moons ago we
*had* to produce a flowchart ON PAPER
and dry run it, again on paper before we where allowed anywhere near a
keyboard !
Just my 2 cents worth


And your two cents worth is probably now about 21 cents due to
inflation since those days. I never learned COBOL but I did a fair
amount of PL/1 programming.

I also remember those days. People were "cheap" and "machine time"
was expensive. Now those economics have completely flipped around.

I've worked with software developers for probably 20+ years now, and I
appreciate the pressures on them to release on schedule, to get a
product out without the resources that they know they need, etc. Then
there are those developers that think they "know the marketplace"
better than the marketing people, so they spend a lot of time on "cool
features" that no one cares about, but introduce bugs of their own,
etc., etc., etc.


In particular, it is quite easy to delete an entire registry key
without having to track individual data value entries stored beneath
that key, and many uninstall programs fail to do this. How many times
have you uninstalled/reinstalled a program only to find all of your
"original" settings are still there? This is due to an entire
registry key (and data values stored under that key) under
HKLM/software/suppliername/productname or
HKCU/software/suppliername/productname still remaining in the registry
after the uninstall occurs.


Isn't this problem exactly what the registry cleaners are supposed to
solve?

-AH

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Best regards,
Kyle