On 2/21/2011 8:13 PM, Darren New wrote:
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> Yeah. All well in theory, but a lot of stuff is downloads, others are
>> from discs that I may not know the location of,
>
> Sure. I'm just saying that when I install crap, one of the install steps
> is "store this on the "S:\Software" drive along with a text file saying
> any particular pain I had in installing it." It's advice for next time,
> not this time. :-)
>
>> How hard would it have really been to track which changes a specific
>> application made to the registry, then let you "migrate" the damn
>> things by processing out the registry data for it.
>
> The problem with third-party apps is ensuring they only write to the
> areas they're supposed to write to. It would be pretty trivial if you
> could count on apps only storing stuff in the parts of the file system
> and registry where they're supposed to.
>
Well, that is true, but they built this mess, and then didn't even 
consider that an audit log of some sort might be *vaguely* helpful. Just 
saying...

-- 
void main () {
   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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