Uninstall Those Unused Programs

Posted: November 20th, 2011

Many of us have trouble discarding items that are of limited use to us, and this leads to clutter in our homes. This same hoarding mentality is also prevalent on our hard drives, where we continually install programs on a whim, only to rarely use them, if at all. These programs are then left to idle and rot on our hard drives.

It used to be that our hard drives were quite limited in capacity, which gave us greater incentive to remove those useless programs. But with hard drives pushing the terabyte barrier now cheaper and more affordable than ever, the space alone isn’t enough to convince most people to delete.

Space isn’t the only reason to remove unused programs though. Programs can cause conflicts with other programs, which may be difficult to diagnose. Excess programs also clutter your registry with data, which can lead to further conflicts and a slowdown in performance.

You have two main methods of deleting programs. You can go into the program’s folder and find the uninstaller, and run that. An easier way is to go into your control panel and access the add/remove programs function. This will bring up a list of all of your installed programs, making it easy to see them all at a glance, and get rid of them with the press of a button.

So go ahead and delete some of those unused programs. Your computer and hard drive will thank you, and in the event you ever decide you need that program again, you can always simply go ahead and re-install it.

Dave,

Softarama team

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