Sunday, August 17, 2003
Wanted: Smooth Uninstallation!
Posted by Brad Adrian in "THOUGHT" @ 03:00 AM
[Rant] WHY can't more Pocket PC software developers create applications that uninstall as neatly and cleanly as they install?!?! Over the course of the past two days I've blown over four hours trying to get a simple set of utilities to uninstall from my Pocket PC, and it's got me furious! The uninstallation kept just a enough vestiges of the program in place to create an error message at each and every power-on and each time it took three screen taps remove the error message.
I finally figured out where the hack -- er, developer -- had gone wrong, but I'm also upset that this kind of ugly uninstallation is so common. I test a lot of software (as I'm sure a lot of our readers do), and it seems like I am constantly cleaning up files and directories left behind by incomplete uninstallations.
It doesn't have to be this way!!![/Rant]
I finally figured out where the hack -- er, developer -- had gone wrong, but I'm also upset that this kind of ugly uninstallation is so common. I test a lot of software (as I'm sure a lot of our readers do), and it seems like I am constantly cleaning up files and directories left behind by incomplete uninstallations.
It doesn't have to be this way!!![/Rant]
