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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1555569" data-attributes="member: 24160">Drag and drop install/uninstall - When compared with an OS where every piece of software installs not only to the applications folder, but the Start menu, the desktop, the quick launch menu, wants to load itself at startup, ad nauseum... and you can never find all the pieces they install all over the freaking place without becoming a semi-expert at editing the registry.No, it is not a flaw - a great many folks uninstall and reinstall apps for a great many reasons.&nbsp; For instance a glitchy app - most devs are going to make the first suggestion of uninstalling and reinstalling - in which case, keeping the preference file around means you don't have to go back in and change all the preferences to the way you want them again. And for resetting an apps preferences to default if not available in the UI, a simple trash the plist file will do it as the app will create a new one on the next launch.Most of those preference files are measured in &quot;bytes&quot; - not even up to &quot;kb&quot; - so you are really not even regaining any disk space by removing them either.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1555569, member: 24160"] Drag and drop install/uninstall - When compared with an OS where every piece of software installs not only to the applications folder, but the Start menu, the desktop, the quick launch menu, wants to load itself at startup, ad nauseum... and you can never find all the pieces they install all over the freaking place without becoming a semi-expert at editing the registry. No, it is not a flaw - a great many folks uninstall and reinstall apps for a great many reasons. For instance a glitchy app - most devs are going to make the first suggestion of uninstalling and reinstalling - in which case, keeping the preference file around means you don't have to go back in and change all the preferences to the way you want them again. And for resetting an apps preferences to default if not available in the UI, a simple trash the plist file will do it as the app will create a new one on the next launch. Most of those preference files are measured in "bytes" - not even up to "kb" - so you are really not even regaining any disk space by removing them either. [/QUOTE]

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