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Be my guess
Raj Patel at Control Equipment has some information as to why the Add/Remove Programs dialogue box provides such wildly inaccurate information as to which programs are “frequently” or “rarely” used.
Or rather this developer blog link http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/07/09/178342.aspx that Raj provided us with does – it seems that the lack of information that Windows keeps about which programs are installed means that Windows has to guess.
As the blog says: “The guess that Add/Remove Programs ends up making can often be ridiculously wide of the mark due to coincidental word matches… Yes, this is all lame, but when you are forced to operate with inadequate information, lame is the best you can do.”
“It makes you wonder what other components of Windows actually use the ‘finger in the air’ approach. Can we trust the Disk
Cleanup application, or Disk Defrag?” Raj asks.
Wait... am I the only one who's happy that MS aren't keeping as much information about me as I thought?
Posted by :Chris | February 28, 2008 12:32 PM