Wednesday 6 April 2011

Readers Questions - Removing Software

This question comes in from Alan.

Why can I not just delete a program, why do I have to unintall it?

Well Alan, the reason for this is that just deleting it will not remove the program from your computer.

When you install a program such as Microsoft Office for example it not only adds the program to your computer but it can also install extra items that are attached to other areas of Windows, if you right click when you are on the desktop for instance you will see a menu pop-up called "New" and this allows you to create a file for Microsoft Word directly from that menu.

Just deleting the program will only remove the file itself and can cause problems later on.

If you want to remove a program from your computer always unistall it.

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