Same

This is literally me searching in "This PC" OVER 10 TIMES just so that all the files are GONE

use Revo Uninstaller, and when uninstalling a program use advanced search, it's incredible how much jerk it detects NOTICE: dont uninstalling steam games from there or it will detect other steam games as junk and will delete them too I learnt it the hard way haha

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Me, a linux user:we don't have such weakness

I'm guessing it was you

@@jimitSoni lol True

Happens all the time!

Me when I was 10😅

Deltarune: ah yes delete the *whole* shortcut

Gamefiles too? Like it only deleted the exe?

I’ve had this happen with an indie game from steam, it’s been fixed since then though

Lol same, it literally deleted the main file location and the desktop icon. It left all the games files behind. It's very annoying. Edit: forgot to mention, it wasn't the game you were talking about, probably.

Same

World of tanks in 2014 'uninstall' just .exe

Pssst noob, am on level 886 with the ultimate grass cutter that does 999 damage

@@thealien_ali3382noooob mate ive already moved on onto the laser beam grass and shrub trimmer

@@lamoona4269 nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooob i even have the destroyer of all grass types ahhahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahhah AAAAAAAAAA

Hahaha

You all noobs... I have unlocked Mars and colonized it, now cutting grass over there

I seen't that LOL

Nicely played.

🤣

sudo apt autoremove --purge firefox

*purge the fox*

But even then, this commands are disabled in distros tailored for servers. If you are just a tinkerer at home, it is not that big of a deal if something goes wrong.

Many programs on Linux create special users and ppas just for them and they are not deleted if you uninstall the program which created it.

yep Linux is better at this but still not perfect. Best at cleanup is actually iOS because everything is sandboxed, but managing files on it can suck as a result.

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@Sarthak Sharma uwu

Get the Program "runasdate.exe" and launch those free trials with that. It will never reach the 30 days. :)

One trick that sometimes works (although it has the potential to backfire if the program is too clever) is to set the date far in the future, install the program and then set the date back. If it's waiting for your 30 day trial to expire on Jan. 30, 2090, it'll have a long wait. However some programs are smart enough to check if the current date is older than the install date. Another option is to use a program like Total Uninstall, which will compare the registry and whatever directories you tell it, before and after, so that it can delete everything the program adds.

@@DarkNexarius that works with simple software, not stuff that dials home, which is most nowadays

@@lurkerrekrul Encrypted registry keys are usually not taken into account even with Total Uninstall.

use trial reset-er

now its the process of un-checking the box every single time

This is a good reason to spin up a copy of VirtualBox with the OS and the program in it. You can snap-shot the "hard drive" just before the install of the free trial and make copies later.

yeah i was waiting for him to say that when he reached the registry part but he never said it.

Even free programs leave tons of crap in the registry.

old method but checks out

@@kensmith5694 wish that still worked. programs now recognize they're being ran in a virtual environment and will refuse to work

You know someone for real in the Microsoft Deproductivity Department? AWWWWEsome. By the way, would you give them a sharp kick in the nuts, please?

@@Bill_Woo sudo apt autoremove --purge Microsoft-Windows

@@ggldmrd5583 bruh just sudo apt purge microsoft-windows

Apple fan boys: yes

yeah... sure you do ...

nictou Cheer up! Don't be a sour pus!

CCleaner makes it pretty easy

Man,so freaking true

2014 baidu antivirus.

sudo apt purge Program

for everyone having issues use iobit uninstaller, legit uninstaller that can remove stubborn programs.

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Me: hold my registry shortcut

@@insanitylol HaHa, that one was amazing too!

hold my command prompt

hold my magnet

@@insanitylol lol that’s also me

... and worse yet perhaps are the ones that start up and generate an error message when you boot for some reason.

I vaguely recall that there's some kind of autoruns utility from...Microsoft (I think?) that allows you to properly disable them, but I don't remember the details. You'll have to do a bit of digging if you're interested, sorry.

@@nickolas474 You can manually disable them through the services interface of Windows.

@@kensmith5694 Let me guess? Afterburner?

@@mateuszzimon8216 Microsoft Teams among others

I assumed they were drunk. You mean they designed that when sober!

Because it's still using the nt kernel and it's near impossible to maintain consistency along with backward compatibility? It really amazes me how illogical people can be - ignoring all historical contexts and blame everything on developers being lazy? What makes you think you know interface designing better than an entire team of dedicated engineers and designers?

It's because MS never specified how that stuff should be handled until relatively late in the game. Before Win 95 you could install things anywhere you liked, including stupid places like the root directory. I had my computer only loading in monochrome for a while because DOS got confused by a program that had been installed there. Even after Win 95 it remained a suggestion for years and it really wasn't until closer to Vista where they became more forceful about it. But, the worst offender is the Windows Registry where programs wind up doing a bunch of writing for god only knows what reason. Linux and *BSD use text files for configuration and they're mostly just read by the program that wrote the config file.

​@@Rodrigo-me6nq there's a solution for consistency AND backward(s) compatibility, it's called only making 1 OS and keep updating it until the end of time.

@@LazyJesse You mean steadily improving on an existing mature kernel, like ms is doing now, or do you mean never changing the interface and have people complain about ms being lazy?

Ah .OCX files... that brings back memories...

A lot of that has to do with MS not properly designing their installs, or really designing it at all. Really, programs should have the main installation in one place, and then preferences being stored in a clearly labeled folder under the user's home directory. I do think that leaving the preferences in place when you uninstall is a reasonable option, but there shouldn't be any program related files anywhere else, with the exception of things like images, documents and other files that the user may have used the program to create.

Appx packages are horrible, they are a PAIN for users to manage and in fact microbad tries hard to prevent users from going in there. The thing is there is no real "program" its only files and its customary to put files in places. One great idea would be to NOT HAVE MADE THE CURSED REGISTRY but in reality most "solutions" to this problem are just not going to work for advanced users, developers and complex programs like games. It will also add more overhead for small utilities and system tweaks. COMPUTERS ARE NOT PHONES.

@@rohansampat1995 In theory the registry is a good idea: provide a standard approach for storing key-value pairs, but the implementation, while fine for its time, leaves a lot to be desired these days. But, I'm not sure I follow your thinking around why they are a pain for users to manage? Thinking about the average user, I've seen people literally go and delete things from the Programmes folder thinking that's how to uninstall something. I'd argue the approach is actually better because it guides users to use the proper tools for installing and uninstalling applications.

@@AaronMcHale No thats the wrong thinking. The average users is a literal muppet when it comes to tech. They suck. Think about the users who are trying to use their tech better. Then you see that because of all this "average user" crap, they have a hard time doing things. A knowledgable user can do all these things but if a user is trying to BECOME knowledgable its a hard hard thing which allows companies to start CONTROLLING us. You ever tried to install a third party appx package thats NOT on the msoft store? do you have any idea how difficult that is compared to an installer. for a power user its just a command but your user that is becoming knowledgable has to start understanding powershell. Next its common frameworks. Those are bundled into the appx which means you may need to install multiple appx instead of just one and the WORST POSSIBLE THING, is the naming. They are named like utter garbage. Nonsense names. OH AND YOU CANT MANAGE YOUR OWN APPX without knowledge of how to take ownership. Its a horrible horrible system designed primarily for control. Not designed for users.

@@rohansampat1995 I feel like you're project your own frustrations onto "average users", no average user is going to be running Powershell commands to install AppX packages, they're going to be installing them through the MS Store or equivalent. For example, I've never seen a software company make AppX packages available as download options from their website, usually they provide a MSI or EXE. So when you talk about these users who are trying to become knowledgeable, either they're still just installing apps from the Store or downloading EXE/MSI, but if they're installing an AppX package, they might find copying and pasting a PowerShell command to be not that much effort; But again, in the real world that's a very unlikely scenario. The naming system is using UUID strings, which are actually widely used in software development and in this case prevents name collisions, that's not a bad thing, and again most users will never need to understand that, it's the equivalent of a user tyring to decode a DLL file. Generally, users just search for the app they want and open it, or open it from Start/Taskbar, they don't need to understand things which are essentially internal structures. With the ownership, it's design so that apps are sandboxed from each other, each app essentially runs under its own user, isolated from other apps, which increased security, it makes it harder for an app which might have malware bundled with it to break out and start infecting other things, so there's a reason you shouldn't mess with the file ownership and it's been designed in that way.

Ask Michael Reeves for that. But it wouldn't be an LMG channel without the segues.

LMAO

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@@lfox02 Yup. I would miss those. And besides, since they're in front of the intro, you can easily skip those without missing anything.

Since they're in front of the intro, you can easily skip those without losing any infos.

That's not true with the configuration files. All the user based configurations or all configuration within /etc you changed manually usually don't get deleted automatically.

@@NicosLeben Why would you change config files in etc when you can copy them to config?

@@mcgullible5212 What do you mean? I am thinking of main.cf or master.cf of postfix. In other places there are config directories where you can overwrite default values without touching the original files which is nice. But it's not everywhere the same.

Not really. The package manager runs the install and uninstall scripts. It deals with dependencies too - and those are declared by whoever created the package. Don't get me wrong: it is years ahead of what Windows uses - but it still depends upon the programmer who created the package.

Lmao

Just use an even more special software to clean the junk of the normal special junkcleaner software until there only one file left that you than manually uninstall, ez peasy

Just use revo uninstaller portable

@@lordeilluminati There is a portable edition of Revo Uninstaller?

@@sk.sourov yes, on the official website www.revouninstaller.com/pt/revo-uninstaller-free-download/ just click on portable. Portable versions of programs dont use or save registry entries and profile data (user folder/appdata)

Are you British?

Don't take it seriously tho

​@@TheRealDrae His spelling of "programme" is indicative of commonwealth citizenship yes.

@@Pawn2e4 Fun story: Australia spells it as "program". And then a certain conservative prime minister changed it back to "programme" *sigh*

@@davtra which pm did that? We have had so many.

Works well! I use it all the time now seriously.

I have the pro version and with advanced it literally cleans anything

what if you wanted to remove the revo uninstaller it will still keep trash lol

@@obadanw yep 😂

@@obadanw you don't remove it lol why would you do that.

Well, the size of those tools is probably the images inside mostly

Web browsers are an OS on themself. They need to manage different programs, rights, have their own rendering engine, their own debugger, need to manage memory and much more. It is hard to keep them smaller. For the PDF search a small open source PDF viewer. I use evince, it is not very small but a lot smaller than 100 MB.

@@mskiptr nah electron crap like skype, teams, clickup etc. Just funny how bad it is, 300MB disk and 1.5GB of ram for Microsoft's shitty teams application, lazy fucks.

@@skywalker778 not only on microsoft, for example, spotify, whatsapp app, discord, and probably many other electron based app

they made it that way in case you had to reinstall... plus they made it file everywhere to the point no uninstall can get rip of them all...

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Answer: use "Private Browsing", solves that problem. Or else, make a habit of regularly using something like "CCleaner".

Supratim Das No, don’t use CCleaner.

Joe Al Bleachbit yes, but please don’t recommend CCleaner. It’s pretty sketchy.

@@bloonyapprentice4340 Well, from what i read, most of the issues with CCleaner is when using with Win 10, but i am still on Win 7 (so most of the substitute features that Win 10 has, aren't in Win 7 as far as i know). As for privacy and data steal/hack issues, well every pieces of program or app has that issue from any company, be it Google, or Facebook, or Microsoft. Can't really avoid that even if i wanted to. I mainly use CCleaner to remove all unneeded files which default Windows cleaner usually skip out, and i don't really know a good alternative to it (since have been using CCleaner for nearly 10+ years now).

It can. For example some programs nee to create users which are not removed when removing the program. Removing users automatically is bad because it could delete users that are used and what do you do with the files owned by that user?

Well, im more about sudo apt autoremove --purge but still agree

Laughs in " doas emerge --depclean"

Creeper Wow another linux joke, hilarious. I'm dying man! You are truly a comedian! The cream of the crop!

you may still have un-tracked file (normally conf in your home folder)

You know what's funny, basically every other os out there right now uses some sort of package manager, wether it's android with play store, ios/macos with apple store, linux with it's usually more powerful and better package managers. They all have had this basic thing that resolves problems with redistributables(dependencies) and removing files of apps and installing apps from trusted sources for like the past 2 decades. Except for windows which is still trying to push the microsoft store and still has a central point of failure, the registry which no other os has because normal config files and databases solve the problem better than a registry.

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Ahah

Doesn't run my Windows programs :- (

Sarthak Sharma plenty of Linux programs leave behind stray config files or even executables. Plus some require manual installation and (hence uninstalling) of dependencies

Cries in ./configure make make install

"I'm better because I have to learn how to install each of my programs."

@@kaldo_kaldo False, don't even need to hunt down a installer, either. Open a package manager tell it I want this program, hit install, done. Oh I want 150 programs, cool, same process but queued. It is, in fact, Windows that requires you to learn the myriad of different installers and their procedures.

@El Dimos Karam you realize a "package manager" is essentially an app store right? Are you seriously suggesting that using weird software (that sometimes the developer didn't even include or link to window's Programs/Features page) is easier than opening an app store and clicking uninstall?

Apt purge PROGRAM && apt --purge autoremove;

Ikr. My friend and I were talking about CPUs about 2 weeks ago, and we wandering why CPU are not bigger.

They track us

Media Tech hahaha

Heena Patel 🤣

I know right, I was just cursing about Junk files taking up space but on Android

Omg this. This is so true!

Yeap..those are called either " key loggers" or " data loggers". And it is yet another of the many reasons I stopped using Third party programs like Ccleaner and bs registry cleaners years ago. I've been on linux 100% for about a month now. Nice to not have to worry about such bs :D

@@henryrussell7392 no, he said not to use those who just clean around, this focuses only on the uninstalled program, it's not searching for other junk files, and I do it only for large programs in case they leave stuff behind

Lmao

yes

Was this with the xbox game pass? Because most of the time when i uninstall games in that god forsaken xbox launcher, the files are still on the harddrive. And dont get me started on those fucking folders that get created in the root folder on the hdd/ssd you choose to install games on.

@@user-qr9oj8bt6v It was on microsoft store. When you tried to uninstall game it not only deletes the game folder but also a folder where that game folder was located. So if you installed game on "C:/Games/Minecraft Dungeons", uninstaller deleted folder "Games". If you installed game on C:/ without creating any folder then the game was just formatting your C:/ drive.

Oop

Minecraft Dungeons be like

@@codertommy6883 why?

@@null418 there was a bug where uninstalling the game would uninstall everything else in the programs folder

YouTutor really!?

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Ikr

Yeah thanks for saving time

Not really... More like Windows are not design well enough.

summary its because the windows OS ecosystem is not designed well enough

Vignesh S as if other system handle it better? Plenty of others have this issue.

no, bins are programs, not directories!!/s

Random files left around and the registry entries:

And most likely you're far from done. There are tons of programs that leave junk splattered all over your PC, including registry entries.

Good program this

lol just noticed

while true ; do echo "Linux is better" done

DLL Hell hasn't been a thing since Windows XP.

Ken Smith you can get the same effect with the yes command... "yes Linux is Better" should work on most distros

@@arnox4554 shutup. I have VC DLL problems even in windows 10 too.

@@ArunG273 I have no idea then what the hell you're doing with your PC.

Only on arch based distro.

Me:cries in windows 10 laptpp

@@ArunG273 sudo apt autoremove --purge "program name" for Debian based. Also I think Red Hat based use yum or Dnf or thing like that.

@@ggldmrd5583 I know. -_-

Actually not, especially Linux. Most programs still install a lot of dependencies shared across other programs and the system itself and if you check your Home folder there will be a lot of config files even for uninstalled stuff.Other issue is how many programs create special users or ppas (Chrome) just for them and if you uninstall the program, they are left behind too.

There are commands to clean unneeded dependencies, but in many times they are locked behind a lot of warning dialogs, especially in distros tailored to servers, which disable this commands entirely. It is possible to re enable them but they make this more convoluted to do to avoid accidents and for security purposes.

Still remember week one training at Apple. People look at Apple compared to Windows and think it's as easy as picking up a leaf on their yard and tossing in the trash bin. But in reality not all programs are like that. There are a few that are more like lilly pads and you may find uninstalling them by removing the app icon, doesn't totally remove the app, it's files, or it causes issues with the OS or other apps. For these apps it's always good to use the uninstaller that comes with the app vs using Apple's delete option. That's when I chimed in and said, you should also be doing the same on a Windows PC vs going to control panel and uninstalling it from there. (Not sure if still a problem, but Windows used to sometimes uninstall the app/program and leave behind the uninstaller among other items vs the uninstaller that usually did a better job)

Last time I was early, Otto Von Bismarck had control over Prussia!

They are just showing Firefox 'coz it's better! xD

Microsoft Edge is the BEST! Period.

No w3m is best web browser

The registry was one of the dumbest of MS' many dumb ideas. If that gets messed up or bloated it causes a huge amount of trouble. I do think that those files should mostly be separate configuration files and if they really need a one stop shop for looking things up, it should be generated from other configuration files. Some variant of that works fine for most other OSes.

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