....Coming back

When the process of finding a digital artist to work with on the design of a new blog becomes a pain and higher priority tasks emerge, initial plans have to get sidelined (for the mean time) and old resources utilized to their maximum. Ahem, all that I'm trying to say is that my plans to move to a new blog have been unsuccessful so far because i have not been able to find a digital artist to work with on the project. I have decided therefore to resume my blogging activities here... arrgh I hate going back on my word. :(. Lesson learned.

Moving on

Its been a wonderful experience maintaining this blog and writing about the things that interest me, however I think it is time to move on. This blog was my blogosphere experiment and I am glad to have learnt and experienced a lot of great stuff as much as I did with this blog. I’m not going to stop blogging, no I’m not out of the blogosphere just yet. I will take a short break and work on a new blog of which will have a particular focus and direction. This one here  lacked those qualities and it has gotten pretty difficult trying to steer it in that direction. What I need is a fresh new start, this time around with some experience.

Thank you all for the support, comments and corrections you provided. It been great doing this with you all :).

How flawed are uninstallers?

For the past three days I’ve been optimizing my PC by removing all the little things I have no use for, which  still happens  to be on my HDD: tools, draft documents, dissolved project source files offline web pages etc. I however have had lots of issues with uninstallers. I think things should be this simple: if and when I want to remove a tool i should simply locate its uninstaller, run it and be rid of all the files, registry and cache the installation of the tool used and created respectively. Excluding user files created with tool. I believe most of you would agree with me that this is not the case (for windows). After uninstalling a tool  you  most often find its registry entries, .config files and  empty directories still  on your system.

This is really annoying, why do you call it  an uninstall– which is meant to be an automated process, when users still have to walk through their system files cleaning up residue? We would be better off manually deleting the \program files  subfolder of the tool to be uninstalled and go on with the residue hunting – ok,that might be a bit far fetched. The point I’m trying to make to the people in charge of delivering uninstallers is that if you want to  do something (uninstalling) and do it right, please make sure you see it through the whole process.  Don’t leave us hanging in the middle of the process, to our own search-and-delete-residue skills. It certainly annoys users and makes you look bad.

It is time old user experience issues got looked at again, and hopefully this time around fixed for good.

PS: Ccleaner handles cache and registry issue resolution pretty well, helped me a lot with my clean up and optimization. just remember not to add more clutter with its installation ;).