This morning I got tired of the sluggishness of the Win7 Home Edition Compaq Presario CQ62 Notebook, and Task Manager showed me something called "CinemaNow". I don't watch movies (except for YouTube clips of Rowan Atkinson) so I figured to eradicate CinemaNow.
Hans's post suggested (to my mind) that Cyberlink might be the cause of the sluggishness of my mouse, and a post from HeyJude mentioned PCDecrapifier.
So I d/l and ran PCDecrapifier.
Two hours later ...
- I think PCDecrapifier is way slower than RevoUninstaller, but I have no way of measuring which does the better job.
- PCDecrapifier seemed to "lose" modality of screens; part of the 2 hours was spent waiting for it to finish a deletion only to find that a confirmation dialog was sitting behind another GUI form.
- PCDecrapifier works in Batch mode - I can click a set of programs to be removed, whereas RevoUninstaller works on one installation at a time.
- Both programs require me to sit-and-click; I'd much prefer something that would let me vent my spleen with a single burst from an AK-47 or similar.
- Cyberlink took the lion's share of time; it had an unbelievable number of folders and files.
- I now wish I'd recorded folders/files/bytes on Drive C before and after.
- PCDecrapifier seemed to hang; a couple of times I fired up TaskManager and cancelled MSIExec.exe (I think that is the correct spelling).
If Windows7 is still functioning tomorrow I'll type in whether I think it seems faster.
I rather wish there was a button marked "Strip Windows down to bare essentials" for people like me who just want to use the computer ... (
)I hear the whistle on the kettle ...
