Uninstalling Software

One of things I dislike with a passion about modern software is that you cannot cleanly uninstall it from your PC. Removing an unwanted or problematic program just leaves metaphorical muddy footprints throughout your PC. It makes my SSD feel like a crime scene with virtual brain matter spattered across the soft furnishings. Sadly, this is the price you pay for having a modern operating system with a registry, shared dependencies and a liking for temporary files and caches. It all makes me feel very nostalgic for the halcyon days of DOS, with self-contained programs sitting in a solitary folders. Often libraries and drivers lived in specific system paths or the same folder, avoiding conflicts. You could just delete stuff and it sodded off. You didn’t need two priests and holy water. Happy days.