What is the difference between uninstalling and deleting a software?
To understand the difference between uninstalling software and deleting software you first need to understand what happens during the install process. When you run the software installer / setup program it performs several functions : 1) It unpacks all the files from the compressed installer archive and copies them to the program folder. 2) It checks for and installs / upgrades any required support libraries, e.g. MS Visual C runtime, etc, which are copied to the windows\system32 folder.. 3) It enters settings into the Windows System Registry, this is a database used by the Windows OS. An example of the kind of thing that goes in here is licence keys, startup defaults, file associations. e.g When you install MS Office it puts entries into the registry to tell windows that when you double click on a file with the extebsion .DOC it should launch MS Word. 4) It creates shortcuts on the desktop / start menu. When you delete the program file folder you only reverse step 1 of the installatio
