Talk:Uninstaller

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Third Party Uninstallers[edit]

Maybe we should consider putting all the third party uninstaller stuff on it's own page? Andrew Morritt 00:33, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)

Norton Clean Sweep is the ancestor of Norton GoBack? --Mircea.Vutcovici 16:34, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Uninstall A Word?[edit]

Is uninstall even a word? I remember my english teacher asserted that uninstall is not a word. FreeBSD uses deinstall (make deinstall). Are they trying to be different or did they realise something that someone else hasn't? Uranther 03:23, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Google hits suggests "uninstall" is more common than "deinstall". My own personal preference is for the antonym of "install" to be "remove" rather than multiplicitizing verbositociousness ... but the term "uninstall" seems to be reasonably well established. --FOo 05:51, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thesaurus says remove is the antonym of install. But techspeak and jargon words don't have to be correct English and usually are not. Uninstall probably wasn't an English word; but it became one as soon as it slipped into the vernacular. English teachers often forget that language is not static. New ideas need new words, and we don't generally consult an English teacher before we pick them. Deinstall isn't in the dictionary btw, nor is uninstall if I'm not mistaken. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.102.196.41 (talk) 20:52, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why are they often called unwise.exe?[edit]

Are developers just trying to imply that it is "unwise" for the user to stop using their product, or is there some other meaning? Does anyone know the origin of this convention? I'd like to see something about this in the article, even if it's just stating that it's not really known. AllUltima 23:29, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It is for programs that use the wise installer system. unwise just undoes what the wise installer did. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.102.196.41 (talk) 20:36, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Broken code?[edit]

In the first paragraph there is a like that isn't doing anything.

{| class="wikitable" |- ! header 1 ! header 2 ! header 3 |- | row 1, cell 1 | row 1, cell 2 | row 1, cell 3 |- | row 2, cell 1 | row 2, cell 2 | row 2, cell 3 |} —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 145.53.50.36 (talk) 11:38, 4 May 2007 (UTC).

Deletion notice – Unreferenced sections[edit]

Hi, everyone. You know that everything in Wikipedia needs reliable sources and that unsourced contents may be challanged or deleted. This article contains sections that are completely unsourced. They had been unsourced long before they were tagged for lacking sources.

So, I believe I have the right to delete those unsourced sections if I so wish, unless they are sourced, right?

Fleet Command (talk) 08:45, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Content is too implementation-specific[edit]

There is no indication that the descriptive sections are not specific to a particular uninstaller implementation. Additionally, it repeatedly mentions details specific to the Microsoft Windows platforms. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.184.245.22 (talk) 15:21, 17 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]