San Francisco, CA (1888PressRelease)
April 11, 2008 - The practice of selling a product that fixes problems with operating systems like Windows and Mac OS has been around for years, but not until recently have these programs addressed issues with the software that the original developers could have easily fixed themselves. Actions so simple as deleting old programs have become so frustrating that software like Perfect Uninstaller have been independently developed to get the job done.
These programs oftentimes do what the most recent Microsoft operating system, Vista, does faster, easier and more efficiently than what Microsoft's built-in software can. Whereas Vista's program uninstaller might only partially uninstall a program, leaving behind orphan files and folders that clog up computers over time, or might not even be able to uninstall a program, smaller development companies have created inexpensive solutions that resolve these problems in literally two clicks.
One such program, Perfect Uninstaller, is one of many to hit the market of inexpensive solutions to typical computer problems. In this case, the program replaces Window's Add/Remove applet, the standard package for programs from a computer. The Add/Remove feature compiles a list of everything it can find installed on a computer, then provides the option to uninstall these items. However, the applet only runs what uninstallation features the installed program might already have, and if those don't work, Add/Remove doesn't work. Perfect Uninstaller has its own removal software that does the work itself, and unlike the Add/Remove applet, also seeks out the registry key that the program left when it was installed, erasing it as well. This prevents "ghost" programs, where a computer will behave as though the program is still installed while all the files are gone, reducing performance as these dead registry keys pile up over time.
These small business development companies are made possible by the weak points in the economic armor of enormous companies caused by such flaws in software like the Add/Remove applet. In this way, massive corporations such as Microsoft are literally paying for their mistakes.
