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From: s902114@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Zen [Stuart Bishop]=)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: How to clean WIN.INI and WINDOWS directory?
Message-ID: <1991May2.042529.25270@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 2 May 91 04:25:29 GMT
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tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:

:-)As for cleaning app files out of \WINDOWS, better to ask why you
:-)installed them there in the first place.  There is generally no reason
:-)to do so.  Anywhere in your PATH will do the trick.

That's funny. \windows isn't in my path anymore. All it takes is changing
the paths of things like paint.exe to \windows\paint.exe or in my case 
\windows\bmp\paint.exe. And a bit of editing in the win.ini.

One thing I *REALLY* hate are apps which tell you they need to be put on the
path when all it requires is a single batch file to call it. In window's
case, the programs called from the program manager don't even require this.

:-)>This is very reminiscent of the old days when every program insisted on
:-)>polluting the root directory instead of using a private directory.

:-)Quite so, and usually for the same reason: user laziness.

Or because installation programs frequently do little but copy the files
to a directory, and maybe modify the path for you.

Or because they dont feel like telling a user how to create a batch file
which calls the right programs, and make sure it is in the path when
the above is much easier to accomplish.

Does having a huge path slow down searching for programs? I assumed so,
and have never actually read the arguments on the subject. 
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