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I was surprised by a warning popping up that my 200 Gigabyte hard drive was near capacity. As someone who started using a PC with two 360 Kilobyte floppies the idea that I could’ve loaded that much data was beyond my ability to comprehend.
I ran the default disc clean option in MS Properties. This saved a few Megabytes here and there, but still not enough to guarantee optimal operation. So, most naturally, I said, I’ll get rid of a few of my lesser used programs.
When I started the default MS uninstall utility it took, and I kid you not, almost one half of an hour to fully load the list of installed programs. Hoo!
No Problem! Right? Errr….
The first program I tried to remove was bonjour from Apple. It was installed automatically with Apple Safari. When I deleted Safari, I tried to get rid of bonjour with it.
After several tries, I gave up. That was then. I tried again with MS uninstaller. It still would not go away.
After some research, I downloaded Revo Uninstaller.
It deleted bonjour with no problem. Then I deleted digsby and ConceptDrawVI, both programs instead of which I knew I was using other software.
The fast reload feature of Revo Uninstaller allowed me to see the complete list of programs installed on my hard drive. Like the TLC show where they come into your house and throw out or sell all of the ‘stuff’ you rarely or never use, I went though the list of software and noted all that applies to that formulae.
This is the list of what I have or will soon remove:
| bonjour digsby dexpot copernic desk suite conceptDrawVI doPDF 6.1 printer Easy DVD Copy eBay Desktop ENC TNT Screen Capture 2.1 ecto for Windows?? EphPod EPSON Printer Software EPSON Web to Page eReader Eudora Eudora (8.0.0b3) FastPictureViewer FastStone Image Viewer 3.6 FastStone Player FormatFactory FotoTagger 2.5.0.1 Foxit Reader Free Hide Folder Free Commander Fresh Diagnose FreshView Froddle Pod Futuriz Imager 5.9 FWD Softphone GCalDaemaon V1.0 HotspotShield IncrediMail Xe Inkscape 0.4.5 Jarte 3.0 Beta2 jExplorer 1.8.0.1 Joost (tm) beta 1.06a Karen's Replicator Launchy 1.25 Melon 3.03 mIRC Miro Moffsoft FreeCalc Mulberry Newzie0.99.9 NSIS FreePOPs Nvu 1.00 ooVooP2Edit 1.0.2008 | P2SafeNotes PaintStar 2.70 Pandora PeaZip 2.2008 PhotoFiltre Photology PotoPerfectExpress PostBox (1.0b.10) PowerDVD Pownce Q10Editor QuickTime Alternatives Quotepad 2.0.2 RarZilla Free Unrar Registry Easy v3.00 Remove Empty Directories RSS Bandit SJPhone Skyhook Wireless WiFi Service Snitter Softdata Fax Modem sonic Encoders SpiralFrog Download Manager Spreadtweet 2003 Streamripper TechProWorldClock TetrisZone TextMakerView TweakUI Tweaker For Outlook Express Unix Utility for Yahoo! Widgets Video Enhacer 1.9.10 VirtualDub Filter Pack w.bloggar 4.2003 Wakoopa WheresJamesStartup Manager Whisher 2.0 Wildbit Viewer Winam Winamp Remote Winamp Toolbar for Firefox Wordpod WordToys WordWeb Pro Zempt 0.4 Zoundry Blog Writer ZScreen 1.10 ZuneDesktopTheme |
Some of these I remember installing, but mostly not.
I considered using the new Bing search engine to look up each of these , but decided if I didn’t know what they were, I didn’t use them.
Of course, the Murphy laws of computer use will make sure the one program I do delete is crucial to the operation of this computer.
Even knowing this; I plan to plough ahead and take them all out.
If this results in any adventures, I will be sure to report them here… If I can.
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