Control Panel: Uninstall shows HUGE terabytes program size which cannot be correct
Microsoft Money Plus shows 100GB and CyberlinkPowerDirector10 shows 3.99TB! Who calculates the size, the program or Microsoft Windows?
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name ASUS1
System Manufacturer System manufacturer
System Model System Product Name
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500 CPU @ 3.30GHz, 3301 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 0503, 3/15/2011
SMBIOS Version 2.6
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume4
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514"
User Name xxxxx\yyy
Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 7.91 GB
Available Physical Memory 6.36 GB
Total Virtual Memory 15.8 GB
Available Virtual Memory 14.0 GB
Page File Space 7.91 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
September 18th, 2012 10:09am
What size hard drive(s) do you have? When's the last time you did a malware scan?
SC Tom
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September 18th, 2012 11:48am
Hi,
I suppose the reason is that if the application uninstall information doesnt include an install date or application size information, the guessing game continues. Add/Remove Programs searches the Program Files directory on all drives in a manner similar
to the Start menu. It looks for a directory name with at least two words in common with the application name. If it still cant find anything, it looks in the root directory of all drives.
The winning directory establishes the application size. The creation date is taken as the application install date. Remember, you can have Windows avoid this disk search by simply registering the application install date and size as part of the uninstall
entry.
More information please refers to the link below:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg558108.aspxSpencer
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September 19th, 2012 4:59am