Re: Ad-Aware Install
From: Quaoar (quaoar_at_tenthplanet.net)
Date: 07/01/05
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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:40:32 -0600
Ross wrote:
> Nog pulled a bright blue crayon out of the box and scribbled this in
> news:HLqdnYIeOqyidV7fRVn-2A@adelphia.com:
>
>>
>> <picky> wrote in message
>> news:9ha7c19rpjlq6b62mj7412j8sphdeogd5l@4ax.com...
>
> [...]
>
>>> 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.
Step 1: find the previous version.
Step 2: validate that what the registry says and validate that the
innumerable dlls have not been overwritten with shared dlls that must be
accommodated for a new install.
Step 3: forward your concerns to Microsoft who, singlehandedly invented
this bizarre OS.
Q
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