http://xato.com/windows-security/time-for-a-windows-cleanup Mark Burnetts Windows Security Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:00:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://xato.com/windows-security/time-for-a-windows-cleanup#comment-204 TC Sun, 18 Feb 2007 01:07:02 +0000 http://xato.net/bl/2007/02/12/time-for-a-windows-cleanup/#comment-204 It's presumeably a backcompat thing. Someone upgrades to Vista but their old accounting program stops working because it tries to run edlin for the user to enter some data - or somesuch. It would be simple to remove all those old Wndows programs - but what if that stops old software working? I imagine they considered this carefully & judged that the risks outweighed the benefits. It’s presumeably a backcompat thing. Someone upgrades to Vista but their old accounting program stops working because it tries to run edlin for the user to enter some data - or somesuch. It would be simple to remove all those old Wndows programs - but what if that stops old software working? I imagine they considered this carefully & judged that the risks outweighed the benefits.

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