Am 09.06.2012 14:22, schrieb sebb:
AFAICT, the unpacked files are only needed for installation, and one
still has the initial download, so why clutter up the disk?
this is not true. The unpacked files are needed for the so called
'maintenance mode': Starting the setup from the control panel offers you a
repair and a modify mode. That's what the unpacked files are needed for.
In that case, they really should *not* be placed on the desktop.
Nor under TEMP of course.
I don't know what the Windows standard location for such things is,
but it's certainly not the desktop.
On Vista and 7 it could be "c:\Users\<user name>\Downloads\". Who
remembers Win XP?
And of course, if the user decides to remove the application, it
should remove the unpacked files as well.
I don't know any software behaving like that so I don't think that we
need that. If the user is deinstalling for a new install he needs these
files.
And in case someone has installed from a CD it doesn't make sense.
What we might delete is the packed file.
Only if this is agreed by the user.
As always when deleting useful files.
