My OCD won't rest until I have hunted down and deleted every single file or registry key from an unistalled program.

@patricksedler9697

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@ahhlongg

3 жыл бұрын

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

@rjuez00

3 жыл бұрын

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

@dragospahontu

3 жыл бұрын

David's Blaine new stunt is happening this month on the 31st of August!

@lauriekimani

3 жыл бұрын

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

Someone: Deletes shortcut and thinks they uninstalled the *whole* program

@jimitSoni

3 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing it was you

@Longus07

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimitSoni lol True

@EikottXD

3 жыл бұрын

Happens all the time!

@BARCH-wp5vl

3 жыл бұрын

Me when I was 10😅

@thescreemregular5168

3 жыл бұрын

Deltarune: ah yes delete the *whole* shortcut

I can't remember what game it was, but I had one on Steam that left basically everything when it uninstalled.

@m3nmin

3 жыл бұрын

Gamefiles too? Like it only deleted the exe?

@RyuunosukePanda

3 жыл бұрын

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

@patricksedler9697

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@epheler3926

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@aeyde

3 жыл бұрын

World of tanks in 2014 'uninstall' just .exe

Linus: "When was the last time you played yard work simulator 2004 anyway" Last night since they added ray tracing....I'm on level 43

@thealien_ali3382

3 жыл бұрын

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

@lamoona4269

3 жыл бұрын

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

@Hyperandom

3 жыл бұрын

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

@User-xw6kd

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

@algirdasnausedas324

3 жыл бұрын

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

"friends at Microsoft..." "uninstall Mozilla...." 🤣🤣🤣

@thatclintguy

3 жыл бұрын

I seen't that LOL

@pepi88

3 жыл бұрын

Nicely played.

@Choolwechiwaya

3 жыл бұрын

🤣

@ggldmrd5583

3 жыл бұрын

sudo apt autoremove --purge firefox

@thescreemregular5168

3 жыл бұрын

*purge the fox*

"Because if it removes them, it might break other softwares" Oh god, only if we had somekind of solution to dependency management.. Like imagine if there would be a solution, which would track those dependencies, and install and remove them as needed..

@lordeilluminati

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@lordeilluminati

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@QualityDoggo

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@uwu-zl6tq

3 жыл бұрын

this post was made by linux gang

@uwu-zl6tq

3 жыл бұрын

@Sarthak Sharma uwu

30-day trial was over. Uninstalled and reinstalled the program. "Your trial has expired. Please register the product." "I knew you sneakily left something in my PC without my permission!!!"

@DarkNexarius

3 жыл бұрын

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

@lurkerrekrul

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@dibbesnl

3 жыл бұрын

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

@dibbesnl

3 жыл бұрын

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

@oneroom8662

3 жыл бұрын

use trial reset-er

1:50 oh god,i remember going through the process of reinstalling directX EVERY SINGLE TIME

@devforfun5618

3 жыл бұрын

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

Basically keeping registerey intry prevents from using the free trial more than once :)

@kensmith5694

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@govind_goyal

3 жыл бұрын

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

@lurkerrekrul

3 жыл бұрын

Even free programs leave tons of crap in the registry.

@rohansampat1995

Жыл бұрын

old method but checks out

@juan78268

Ай бұрын

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

Program: “Gonna delete me? “Good Luck”

@Uilliam56

3 жыл бұрын

Man,so freaking true

@TurquoiseDusk

3 жыл бұрын

2014 baidu antivirus.

@WyvernDotRed

3 жыл бұрын

sudo apt purge Program

3 жыл бұрын

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

@dragospahontu

3 жыл бұрын

David's Blaine new stunt is happening this month on the 31st of August!

Program: you can't uninstall me. Me: hold my 'open file location' button

@insanitylol

3 жыл бұрын

Me: hold my registry shortcut

@ShailSonsTech

3 жыл бұрын

@@insanitylol HaHa, that one was amazing too!

@vergil2739

3 жыл бұрын

hold my command prompt

@liiiliiiliiiliiil

3 жыл бұрын

hold my magnet

@HeenaPatel253

3 жыл бұрын

@@insanitylol lol that’s also me

I find it more bothering that almost every program these days adds services that start when windows boots up. Do i need the telemetry that half of the times comes with those services ?

@kensmith5694

3 жыл бұрын

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

@nickolas474

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@Koeras16

3 жыл бұрын

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

@mateuszzimon8216

3 жыл бұрын

@@kensmith5694 Let me guess? Afterburner?

@kensmith5694

3 жыл бұрын

@@mateuszzimon8216 Microsoft Teams among others

My “Friend” at Microsoft that doesn’t allow me to activate windows multiple times :)

@Bill_Woo

3 жыл бұрын

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?

@ggldmrd5583

3 жыл бұрын

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

@e.6z1

3 жыл бұрын

@@ggldmrd5583 bruh just sudo apt purge microsoft-windows

@thescreemregular5168

3 жыл бұрын

Apple fan boys: yes

When I uninstall a program i usually manually search for leftover folders and delete the leftover registry keys

@nictou

3 жыл бұрын

yeah... sure you do ...

@patricksedler9697

3 жыл бұрын

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

@FreedomForAll2013

3 жыл бұрын

CCleaner makes it pretty easy

Back in the old days of Windows 95, there was a program called Cleansweep 95. It detected that you want to install a game or program and everything was stored in Cleansweep 95. Every file, exe and even the registry was stored. Whenever you wanted to uninstall a program or game, you did it through Cleansweep 95, which opened the stored information to safely remove everything the program or game installed on your machine. When the icon next to the file was green, it was safe, if it was red, it was a dangerous file that could potentially harm your pc and when the icon was blue, that specific file was also used my another program. Since than, numerous companies has made their own so called "safe uninstaller", that logged everything, to "restore" your machine back before you installed the program or game. I still remember this because my first computer had Windows 95 installed when I became 18 years old. I do love the days that I played games on my dad's TRS-80 pc made by Tandy Corporation...

Remnants of McAfee can still keep other antiviruses from installing. So always use the optional removal tool if it's forced onto your pc

Developers just write codes in bunches and once they see it's functional, they just leave it there. This it the main cause for residual files and interface inconsistencies. Why else do you think windows 10 interface is such a mishmash??

@kensmith5694

3 жыл бұрын

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

@Rodrigo-me6nq

2 жыл бұрын

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?

@SmallSpoonBrigade

Жыл бұрын

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.

@LazyJesse

Жыл бұрын

​@@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.

@Rodrigo-me6nq

Жыл бұрын

@@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?

That's why us Linux users use package managers. You don't have to rely on the software developer to make a decent uninstall script, rather your package manager manages the install and uninstall process for you. Plus, you can specify if you don't want to keep your configuration files.

@NicosLeben

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@mcgullible5212

3 жыл бұрын

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

@NicosLeben

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@sysbofh

3 жыл бұрын

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.

im going to design a collar that detects "speaking of", and shocks EVERY staff member of LMG.

@lfox02

3 жыл бұрын

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

@MilanVoorhees

3 жыл бұрын

LMAO

@dragospahontu

3 жыл бұрын

David's Blaine new stunt is happening this month on the 31st of August!

@vincentguttmann2231

3 жыл бұрын

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

@vincentguttmann2231

3 жыл бұрын

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

Don't forget to mention that when your trying to uninstall software that fails because it can't find the files to uninstall. There is a lot of times you may have to manually go to revo or thunderbolt to get rid of that left over regerestry because if you don't the software won't install the same program..

I remember growing up and on windows 95 constantly getting "these files don't appear to be in use anymore, would you like to remove them?" when uninstalling shareware games. Needless to say, i learned real quick not to say yes.

@shaunclarke94

3 жыл бұрын

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

On 95/98 you could create an entirely new registry by importing a small text file that contained the main branch top level names. It was basically a quick way to reinstall Windows without actually having to reinstall.

Well: there is a tool called revo uninstaller. It’s free! Scans for leftover junk after the uninstaller did. it’s thing

@chrisarkilanian

3 жыл бұрын

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

@hellomine2849

3 жыл бұрын

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

@obadanw

3 жыл бұрын

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

@kshitijwadhekar1310

3 жыл бұрын

@@obadanw yep 😂

@hellomine2849

3 жыл бұрын

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

I was hoping that they would mention the modern AppX packaging format as a way of showing how things could and should be done going forward. AppX packaging means basically everything is stored in a application container, so when uninstalling Windows can just remove the container and everything is gone. By nature of this approach it also means apps tend to be more sandboxed and so keeping the system more secure.

@SmallSpoonBrigade

Жыл бұрын

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.

@rohansampat1995

Жыл бұрын

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.

@AaronMcHale

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@rohansampat1995

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@AaronMcHale

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

Autodesk leaves so much behind, it's nearly impossible to rid of everything from them.

A good example of an uninstaller gone wrong is the game :Pool of Radiance: an older top down D&D game. or as its commonly known "Pool of Uninstall Windows" because the uninstall would break windows and the company had to issue a downloadable uninstaller to use to work around the problem.

"Not a big deal if nobody else uses your pc".......and you forget to delete your browsing history

@dragospahontu

3 жыл бұрын

David's Blaine new stunt is happening this month on the 31st of August!

@Sup_D

3 жыл бұрын

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

@bloonyapprentice4340

3 жыл бұрын

Supratim Das No, don’t use CCleaner.

@bloonyapprentice4340

3 жыл бұрын

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

@Sup_D

3 жыл бұрын

@@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).

sudo pacman -Rns Leaving junk? Nope.

@happygimp0

3 жыл бұрын

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?

@ggldmrd5583

3 жыл бұрын

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

What you mean to say is that Windows developers do not bother to provide a safe way to remove registry data.

Laughs in “Sudo pacman -Rns”

@BrenoSilveira94

3 жыл бұрын

Laughs in " doas emerge --depclean"

@patricksedler9697

3 жыл бұрын

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

@lesto12321

3 жыл бұрын

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

@errorlooo8124

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@lauriekimani

3 жыл бұрын

This comment was written by the arch-based gang...

Love it when you uninstall a program and it opens a page with a sad puppy or cat saying something like "we are sorry to see you go..."

Excellent video. It's about time someone made a short & sweet video of this topic.

When I find that some software is leaving some data after uninstall, I use some special softwares clean the left overs. The saddest part is that those special softwares also leaves some data after uninstall.

@danyalreyaz7503

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@SherryDC

3 жыл бұрын

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

@lordeilluminati

3 жыл бұрын

Just use revo uninstaller portable

@sk.sourov

3 жыл бұрын

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

@lordeilluminati

3 жыл бұрын

@@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)

The end of the story; lazy development. Basically the same reason why a web-browser, or pdf viewer is over 100MB these days :(

@mskiptr

3 жыл бұрын

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

@happygimp0

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@skywalker778

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@dedoyxp

3 жыл бұрын

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

@campkira

3 жыл бұрын

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...

Why do these video’s always upload at the right time🤣

@mediatech1588

3 жыл бұрын

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

@HeenaPatel253

3 жыл бұрын

They track us

@mathieub0934

3 жыл бұрын

Media Tech hahaha

@mathieub0934

3 жыл бұрын

Heena Patel 🤣

@SS-wt9jt

3 жыл бұрын

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

I'll tell you, I have a tiny boot drive that is really just for windows and some smaller programs that I want to run fast. It continually fills up with crap that programs I want installed on my program drive just dump in there, and that stuff doesn't get removed when I use uninstallers, because of course it doesn't. I just love it.

Linus can still try to sell us his cleanup programme LOL

@TheRealDrae

3 жыл бұрын

Are you British?

@Thunder00643

3 жыл бұрын

Don't take it seriously tho

@Pawn2e4

3 жыл бұрын

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

@davtra

3 жыл бұрын

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

@dylanmaclean2351

3 жыл бұрын

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

2 words : Revo Uninstaller. It deletes the leftovers in folders and even cleans your registry for you.

@christopherlawley1842

3 жыл бұрын

Doesn't run my Windows programs :- (

@QualityDoggo

3 жыл бұрын

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

You are awesome. You touch on some of most important common topic. liked it a lot

i love tech quickie so much info in such a short time id really like tech longer so you can go much more in-depth

“Some programs are eager to write to, but leave junk behind” Like some house guests. Remember house guests? 2020 is messed.

@dragospahontu

3 жыл бұрын

David's Blaine new stunt is happening this month on the 31st of August!

@liz.1328

3 жыл бұрын

Dragos Pahontu F off

@CountDain7

3 жыл бұрын

Dragos Pahontu reported for spam. Gtfo

@RetroMMA

3 жыл бұрын

2020? Trump. He's not that bad...

@Felipe_9999

3 жыл бұрын

@Dragos Pahontu f off spammer

Me: Uninstall! Visual Studio: LOL, sure...

@ggldmrd5583

3 жыл бұрын

Ahah

Very nice always wondered about these things. Brings things into perspective, even for an intermediate like me

"Why Your Programs Leave JUNK Behind" Just like people when they purposely leave their crap at your house, so they have an excuse to come back!

@flufflebut8781

3 жыл бұрын

Omg this. This is so true!

Me: "dies" Linus: "See! I told you it would happen!"

@dragospahontu

3 жыл бұрын

David's Blaine new stunt is happening this month on the 31st of August!

Imagine having to use uninstaller and clean stuff up to remove a program _This post was made by the Linux gang_

@mikeuk1927

3 жыл бұрын

Cries in ./configure make make install

@kaldo_kaldo

3 жыл бұрын

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

@Vercinaigh

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@karu8291

3 жыл бұрын

@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?

@glamax1393

3 жыл бұрын

Apt purge PROGRAM && apt --purge autoremove;

I can recommend WinDirStat software. It scans your hard drive and lists all directories and files inside sorting them by size. Useful for finding out if folder that takes way too much space is really needed.

Revo Uninstaller Pro is my preferred program for dealing with this stuff, been using it since my old IT repair days.

use Revo Uninstaller, and when uninstalling a program use advanced search, it's incredible how much jerk it detects, it also allows you to install Microsoft bloatware! NOTICE: dont uninstall 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

@rjuez00

3 жыл бұрын

@@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

Well, some programs can uninstall even too well. *early version of minecraft dungeons uninstaller*

@DarkyBoy

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@bartek1887

3 жыл бұрын

yes

@user-qr9oj8bt6v

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@mruczyslaw50

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

You forgot about install tracking. Some applications will purposely leave files and/or registry entries on the system to prevent people from uninstalling and reinstalling evaluation software in an attempt to create a perpetual evaluation period.

@motoryzen

3 жыл бұрын

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

Back in the day I played the Karoshi Suicide Salaryman games (imagine if an entire game was those Mario Maker levels where the goal is to die but the level won't let you) and one of the other games by the guy who made them used a registry key to enforce its gimmick that you only get one chance to do the right thing, even if you uninstall and reinstall.

Summary: "Because they are not designed well enough."

@ShivamJha00

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr

@AlanDias17

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah thanks for saving time

@PerKroon

3 жыл бұрын

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

@vickylance

3 жыл бұрын

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

@QualityDoggo

3 жыл бұрын

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

"Back in the day when games installed DirectX..." Literally every Ubisoft game after first download, press play and again starts to check and install additional programs

Programs are like jobs that people perform various tasks to carry out using various tools and devices. Ideally you'd clean and tidy up the place every time after a task is completed, but it's sometimes more efficient to be messy as long as you can memorize where things are because you can start working with the tools immediately without having to take them out like a program initializing a task from scratch every time.

Had a client who did the 7 to 10 free upgrade, and had system restore on, to their C: drive, guess what happened when also windows 7 backup and restore kept backing up more and more restore points to the main drive for some reason, it filled up an entire 2TB of space including her windows install. TreeSize Free ran as administrator is a really good way to find these things because they aren't always apparent at first, a lot of times excess used space can simply be from onedrive or google drive or some kind of cloud storage being set up for "Offline Files" which I learned recently is mostly unnecessary and sometimes a problem if you work in a setting where multiple users collaborate and god forbid anyone has any sync issues.

I never knew Obi-Wan was a Tech Tip Giver.

i remember some cracked software would delete everything i mean EVERYTHING on that drive lol

@null418

3 жыл бұрын

Oop

@codertommy6883

3 жыл бұрын

Minecraft Dungeons be like

@null418

3 жыл бұрын

@@codertommy6883 why?

@codertommy6883

3 жыл бұрын

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

@HeenaPatel253

3 жыл бұрын

YouTutor really!?

I was expecting the segue leading into the sponsor to be about hiding things and into private internet access. Linus my man, you blew all my expectations out of the water

I remember uninstalling Norton antivirus which caused allsorts of problems, from stopping Outlook from working to stopping windows from booting, and even when you managed to get rid of it you couldn’t reinstall any anti virus program.

My OCD requires me to scrounge through my Program Files and Appdata for programs that left stuff behind.

This is the same man who installed a petabyte server...... let that sink in

Nice to see more vids here

I like to use old app called WinDirStat to check what amount of data is stored in which folders. Very useful - it visualizes data amounts and file types by folders.

Me: *Install a cleanup registry utility software Again Me: *Done deleting them Also Me Again: *Time to delete the utility software Utility Software: *U S u R e A b O u T T h A t ?*

Seriously? Microsoft helps with a video and you choose Firefox as an example for a program you no longer need?

@pipodrankje

3 жыл бұрын

lol just noticed

Great video, very informative! Love your channel, the videos are a good length yet give you all thr info you'd want! Being such a nerd. 😂 (Maybe that's why I don't have friends...)

CCleaner has a Registry cleaner as well to remove broken or redundant installs.

Thats why I just take the whole folder and bin it

@xp_studios7804

3 жыл бұрын

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

@System64MC

3 жыл бұрын

Random files left around and the registry entries:

@chesshooligan1282

3 жыл бұрын

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

Leave it to Microsoft to justify why uninstalling a software product leaves your PC in a less than desirable state.

I've seen invalid registry entries cleaned up with ccleaner result in a very noticeable performance increase in some cases, but those cases usually have 500+ junk data entries in the registry.

@SmallSpoonBrigade

Жыл бұрын

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.

there used to be something called DLL Hell where several programs relied on different versions of a DLL file.

Windows: DLL HELL Good thing I use Linux!

@kensmith5694

3 жыл бұрын

while true ; do echo "Linux is better" done

@arnox4554

3 жыл бұрын

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

@QualityDoggo

3 жыл бұрын

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

@ArunG273

3 жыл бұрын

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

@arnox4554

3 жыл бұрын

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

"and most leftover files only take over a minuscule amount of space" Yeah, like windows update......

There's an additional reason, the files to be removed can be open by the $MFT, the search indexer, the program itself or antivirus and when that is the case windows especially has file locking semantics that prevents file deletion until the lock is removed, other operating systems can often allow deletion of open files, so this may not occur with them. There's never any guarantee that a file won't be locked, and even getting the file name to enumerate file lists in a directory can cause the file/s to become locked and it can cause silent failure to remove which some uninstallers might not check for, and generally won't retry on failure to prevent annoying the user even if they detect it (except Adobe software, which just loves to piss everyone off)

The biggest part is in the tmp folder or in the update windows installer folder. I forgot the exact path, but in forum they basically told the user to reinstall windows from scratch ...

So what I am hearing is: "it's not Microsoft's fault. It's everyone else's fault." This message sponsored by Microsoft.

Well... honestly this is a Windows problem. Other OSs usually handle installation and uninstallation themselves, they don't leave that responsibility to the app itself.

@lordeilluminati

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@lordeilluminati

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@TumanWK

3 жыл бұрын

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)

My antivirus has a fleet of tools and one of them is a powerful uninstaller which can uninstall stubborn programs and also create a restore point and remove leftover files and registry entrys

I use Revo Uninstaller which let's you delete leftover registry files. Even find additional folders you can delete afterwards. It's crazy how much junk is left behind by some programs.

Linus, here's a request. Please make a video "How to install Nvidia Control Panel (Rant)".

I hadn't been using the built-in uninstallers for years Instead, I'm using Revo Uninstaller

@christopherlawley1842

3 жыл бұрын

Good program this

Another reason registry entries are left behind is to prevent you from abusing the "7-day trial" system on some apps.

Knowledge is power, thank you!

Damn they really out here removing firefox *ALL HAIL FIREFOX, BEST BROWSER OF ALL BROWSERS!*

@arkajyotipal6205

3 жыл бұрын

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

@vishwajeetsingh3108

3 жыл бұрын

Microsoft Edge is the BEST! Period.

@tonyman1106

3 жыл бұрын

No w3m is best web browser

Easy on Linux: sudo pacman -Rns "program name" Done, no need to do anything else.

@ArunG273

3 жыл бұрын

Only on arch based distro.

@Felipe_9999

3 жыл бұрын

Me:cries in windows 10 laptpp

@ggldmrd5583

3 жыл бұрын

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

@ArunG273

3 жыл бұрын

@@ggldmrd5583 I know. -_-

Some trial software used to intentionally leave registry entries for the purposes of tracking that the software was trialed on the PC before, but nowadays more people would be able to poke in their registry to find and remove that tracker.

I've had one where the uninstall just renamed the exe file removing the extension and left everything behind lmao

“Your hard drive has gotten uncomfortably full, and you’ve decided to remedy the issue by uninstalling some unwanted programs.” *stares at 12 HDDs/SSDs* Haha yeah...

Use Linux Problem Solved!!! (apt autoremove program --purge)

Registry residuals can actually be absolutely terrible for some programs. I had to uninstall and reinstall zune once, years ago, and it refused to reinstall because its leftover registry entries made the installer recognize it as already installed, when it wasn't. I had a hell of a time resolving that little issue.

I remember very old times when Revo uninstaller was a most used program to uninstall programs for me 😁 until I got bored of waiting to search through whole registry or file directory, I would go back to that program actually

The last time i was so early, linus didn't have a beard

Last time I was this Early, the Luftwaffe has Aerial Superiority over Europe!

@adamrhoads1521

3 жыл бұрын

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

There are 2 main installer types developers use these days: NSIS (very flexible but can be very messy), and WIX (including bootstrapping). Of course there are a few others as well.

LTT video that has LTT ad. What a win win

TL;DR: Lazy developers.

@blinkcatmeowmeow8484

3 жыл бұрын

More like TL;DW

@patricksedler9697

3 жыл бұрын

I hab skjsiebahdogjWk

Imagine not having a package manager..... What is this, the stone age?

The joy some people get from popping bubble wrap I get manually cleaning my registry.

I've had multiple instances where I'd remove a game or program, only to find 20gb or more of data still taking up one of my drives hidden in an appdata folder. Super annoying to hunt these down. It's rare, but again, super annoying when you don't know where the hell dozens of gigabytes of storage are.