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Prompt Uninstaller; yet another rip-off
Curt:
I followed your link, mwb1100, and would think it likely that Prompt is based on the Safarp source code which was abandoned 2½ years ago. Prompt is however showing much less informations than Safarp did according to this old screenshot from the homepage:
Prompt Uninstaller; yet another rip-off
But a rip-off it may be.
PhilB66:
SpeedApps Website looked dodgy to me - I mean, no contact us details, no info about the company, no license information etc., so I quicly did a whois search and found out it's registered to Nir Halowani. He is linked to a couple of GPL violations, InfraRecorder being the most recent one. appZilla is also associated with him.
Stay away!
Curt:
I have reported the problem to FWT.
f0dder:
Darn, those evil GPL violators :)
I wish XP-and-later built-in add/remove programs didn't try to be so smart... they do all sorts of scanning, which is why it's slow. A couple of links to The Old New ThingTM:
How does Add/Remove Programs get the size and other information?
Why did the Add or Remove Programs control panel try to guess all that information?
mwb1100:
they do all sorts of scanning, which is why it's slow.
-f0dder (January 21, 2008, 06:19 PM)
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And the worst thing about it is (well, the slowness is really the worst thing...) that the information it presents as a result of that scanning is so often incorrect that it's basically useless. Not to mention that 99% of the time I know exactly what I want to uninstall so I don't care about the other information anyway. If Add/Remove Programs wants to present that info, it should do it in a background thread (or on demand).
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