Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> > many of the programs don't remove the data when they are uninstalled.

> Yeah. The old uninstallers would just delete that which they installed, 
> without actually cleaning out the data left behind. Usually leaving 
> directories sitting around where the game had saved state into the program 
> files subdirectories. Kind of a safety thing - don't uninstall the data just 
> because you uninstalled the program. Reasonable, but annoying sometimes.

  The best uninstallers ask you whether you want to also remove save files
and such, giving you the option of preserving them or removing them safely.
That's how all programs should do it, but unfortunately not many do.

  (Preserving save files can be handy if you want to uninstall a game which
you might want to re-install later and continue from where you got stuck,
if you are in the mood.)

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                                                          - Warp

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