You may now abuse me some more for daring to state the truth as I see it, lol. If the application was truly stand-alone, did not add anything to the Start Menu or Desktop and saved no settings anywhere then that would be fine. So, in summary, there is really no excuse for not providing an uninstall.
#Uninstall xtorrent software
That doesn't make me any wiser but I have seen more than a few software applications and let me tell you, adding a bit of polish always helps to promote a professional image. I've been a professional software engineer since 1989 (yes, calculate my age.). But wouldn't it be nice to clean up properly?
#Uninstall xtorrent utorrent
And yes, a few remnants of uTorrent on the system don't really matter. In a year or three, every single one of you will be using a different P2P technology. BitTorrent will live for a while then be replaced by the latest, greatest thing. There is an overriding feeling here that everyone on here thinks that uTorrent is so good that it doesn't need an uninstall because no-one would ever want to uninstall it.
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The one that now had no icon because I've deleted the exe file. Oh and the other shortcut that is on the desktop.
#Uninstall xtorrent install
Oh, and delete that pesky short cut that had the arrogance to install itself in the top level of my start menu (no humble "Programs" entry for this application). Oh, and hunt down the settings (once I read the forum to find out that they exist). And of the 4 clients, uTorrent is the only one that has no uninstall facility. Frankly the suggestion that one of the other apps would change the file extension and/or that other apps are crap at uninstalling are completely trite comments. I'm neither paranoid nor picky but I have installed 4 BitTorrent clients to evaluate and I expect to be able to remove the three that I don't want without manually hunting down settings files. Alternatively, adding a command line option to the exe (like "/u") and a shortcut to it would add (I estimate) between 3 bytes. Adding a single "uninstall" to windows control panel list takes less than 500 bytes. For the most part, software is not one of them.Īdding an uninstall would not bloat the software. I confess to a significant amount of ignorance on many subjects. I have been know to be sarcastic but I'm not doing so in this case. I've been called "Sarcastic", "Lazy", "Spoiled", "Idiot" and, my favourite "Blind Ignorant"Īrguments against adding an uninstall range from "it would bloat the software", through "only paranoid, picky peeps would want to" and "the replacement app would change the file extension" to "anyway, other apps leave traces of themselves". In doing so the only left over data from uTorrent would be that of. I personally have the uTorrent exec and settings/resume files in one folder which enables me to quickly delete the program (if there was ever the need) by just deleting the folder. You need applications such as Your Uninstaller! or something in order to cleanly remove the application, and even then there tend to be empty folders. No application that I have seen (which alters registry and whatnot) cleanly uninstalls itself, and it's mainly Windows' fault.
![uninstall xtorrent uninstall xtorrent](https://securitygladiators.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/find.jpg)
I hope that was sarcastic to at least some degree. There is no excuse for this kind of sloppiness.
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A truly polished application leaves zero trace of itself when uninstalled. Any half-decent application includes an uninstall option. Not only must you manually delete the exe, and manually delete the settings data, you also need to delete the shortcut in the start menu.