Shenan said:
D. Spencer Hines said:
Nope.
That's a cop-out.
DC doesn't get at these files we've been talking about.
Not a "cop-out" - since I was just giving suggestions on easy ways to clean
your own system. Why should everything be built into the OS? Isn't that
what most people complain about anyway - Microsoft controlling too much
(inevitably - someone will come back with "This is something that should be
included - not intrusive" and then someone else would say that deleting
these files would be intrusive and back and forth.)
The second one does what you want.. And it wasn't necessary before now to
get rid of those files (nor is it really necessary now from a performance
standpoint.)
Personally - I am of the opinion that the OS should perform one purpose - a
platform for me to install what I want to use. Anything beyond that is
either gravy or an annoyance - depending on your point of view. I make and
use system restores when installing test software. I also cleanup manually
after uninstalling - to be sure the application really uninstalled - and
most of them do not uninstall everything.
Many of the *.log, *.txt, etc files spoken abot here were put there by third
party applications - so you are saying that Microsoft should be responsible
for house-cleaning other people's bad coding? That seems to be asking a
little much. I don't ask Chevrolet to clean up the lint from the seat
covers I bought at Wal~Mart when I remove them to wash them - why should I
ask Microsoft to cleanup the crap that Norton left behind when I came to my
senses and uninstalled it?
And as for the uninstall files for the patches.. Uhm - it is built in sort
of - SHIFT+DELETE and you shouldn't be deleting them if you don't understand
what they are there for anyway in my opinion. Who knows what you might need
to get rid of (and cannot after deleting the uninstall information for the
patches) when you realize your badly written third party app broke and the
programmer refuses to fix it beyond the work-around "Remove Microsoft patch
KB#######"....
Vista is not complete yet - so who knows - Disk Cleanup may contain what you
are asking for. Computer users are (in general) becoming more savvy (mostly
because the users are mainly those who grew up with computers and the rest
get them to handle the problems) - so - we'll see what the future holds.
For now - I feel that you should take responsibility for your own computer
cleanup (I will likely always feel that way) and having the OS cleanup after
other people's messes is just beyond the scope it was intended for. =)
