Re: Ad-Aware Install

From: Ross (Ross_at_SingingFrog.com)
Date: 06/30/05 

Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:34:27 -0500

Nog pulled a bright blue crayon out of the box and scribbled this in
news:HLqdnYIeOqyidV7fRVn-2A@adelphia.com:

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> <picky> wrote in message
> news:9ha7c19rpjlq6b62mj7412j8sphdeogd5l@4ax.com...

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>> Just mentioning it because I've never seen a software installation do
>> that before.
>>
> Lots of software does that now because people are too stupid to
> uninstall older versions and end up have multiple versions of the same
> software and wonder why they have problems.

I agree that many users are clueless about this, but I primarily blame the
developers who are too lazy to add the small bit of code that would tell an
installer whether a previous version exists and exacly where it is.

R. 

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