Amusing

I am not a windows basher by any means, but I thought you might all enjoy this little story.

I went into Windows to try to clean up my hard drive and opened up the Mcaffe uninstaller and had it scan my drive. Once it was finished scanning it displayed a window with options as to which file type groups I was able to deal with. I chose duplicate files and then executables and proceeded to scan the list it displayed. I found one I wanted to work with and instructed the application to delete one of the duplicates in that list. Unfortunately at that point the program crashed. I decided to try updating it. When the updater popped up it gave me the option to update the uninstaller, and the updater itself, so I let it do both. It went online downloaded the files, updated and prompted me to restart, so I did. Right after that it popped up with a dialog telling me that some initialization process I couldnt read had been aborted because the workstation was shutting down. I couldn’t read what the program was because the dialog disappeared and then so did the desktop right after it. Once rebooted I ran the updater again and found that it hadn’t updated the updater. I guess I know what the aborted process was. I updated that and it prompted me to reboot, this time with no incident.

Apparently the unistaller updater had run and given me its own restart prompt which was independent of the updater updaters own processes, none of which was taken into account by the parent program. As a result I clicked the first prompts ok button before the second updater ran.

After that I ran the uninstaller again, came upon the same duplicate files and clicked to delete the one I had chosen before. It told me the file didnt exist on this drive and would be removed from the list. I clicked ok and the list refreshed and displayed the same set of duplicate files as before. I tried again. Same results, so I found another set of duplicates and tried again. I got the same results again. One more time and with the same results. I closed the program and gave up.

At least I was able to find a folder syncronizer online with goolge, and right at Microsoft no less. I guess I’ll just have to do this by hand.

This is a true story. I know it is because it’s me. About fifteen minutes ago. Grrrr.