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From: Azy on 2 Mar 2010 21:02 Hi, in an effort make more space on my pc AND to delete programs that I do not use any more or care to use, I decided to switch one of my malware programs for another one. I actually wanted to try something different and hopefully seemed like it is less size than AVG. I installed avast and when I went to uninstall AVG, the size of Avast in the add and remove programs was 114 MB !!! AVG was somehting like 27MG. WHen I downloaded avast it was alot smaller in size than AVG so why the difference now when removing it? I barely have had Avast for 14 hours. This question pertains to alot of other programs that when you go to download, it is one size. When you go to Add & RP, its a different size. Can someone explain? thx in advance
From: Alan Edwards on 2 Mar 2010 21:33 I ignore it. Avast shows 113Mb on my XP machine and 70 on my Vista machine. Read here: Add/Remove http://windowsxp.mvps.org/arp.htm or more specifically, here: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/arpinfo.htm and: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/07/09/178342.aspx ....Alan -- Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer http://dts-l.com/index.htm On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 19:02:01 -0700, in microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics, "Azy" <mr(a)mr.com> wrote: >Hi, in an effort make more space on my pc AND to delete programs that I do >not use any more or care to use, I decided to switch one of my malware >programs for another one. I actually wanted to try something different and >hopefully seemed like it is less size than AVG. >I installed avast and when I went to uninstall AVG, the size of Avast in the >add and remove programs was 114 MB !!! AVG was somehting like 27MG. >WHen I downloaded avast it was alot smaller in size than AVG so why the >difference now when removing it? I barely have had Avast for 14 hours. > > This question pertains to alot of other programs that when you go to >download, it is one size. When you go to Add & RP, its a different size. Can >someone explain? >thx in advance >
From: DL on 3 Mar 2010 06:10 Niether AVG or Avast are malaware apps, they are both AntiVirus apps, not the same as malaware "Azy" <mr(a)mr.com> wrote in message news:OIwIEWnuKHA.3408(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > Hi, in an effort make more space on my pc AND to delete programs that I do > not use any more or care to use, I decided to switch one of my malware > programs for another one. I actually wanted to try something different and > hopefully seemed like it is less size than AVG. > I installed avast and when I went to uninstall AVG, the size of Avast in > the add and remove programs was 114 MB !!! AVG was somehting like 27MG. > WHen I downloaded avast it was alot smaller in size than AVG so why the > difference now when removing it? I barely have had Avast for 14 hours. > > This question pertains to alot of other programs that when you go to > download, it is one size. When you go to Add & RP, its a different size. > Can someone explain? > thx in advance >
From: Stan Brown on 3 Mar 2010 07:58 Tue, 2 Mar 2010 19:02:01 -0700 from Azy <mr(a)mr.com>: > I installed avast and when I went to uninstall AVG, the size of Avast in the > add and remove programs was 114 MB !!! AVG was somehting like 27MG. The sizes in Add or Remove Programs are meaningless. I don't know where those numbers come from, but they are definitely not the amount of disk that the program uses. I have seen major programs with a size of just a few K (not M) in Add or Remove programs. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai...
From: Stan Brown on 3 Mar 2010 08:01
Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:10:11 -0000 from DL <notvalid(a)spoofaddress.co.uk>: > > Niether AVG or Avast are malaware apps, they are both AntiVirus apps, not > the same as malaware I don't know what "malaware" might be, but viruses are certainly a form of malware and therefore an anti-virus program is an anti- malware program. As has already been remarked in another thread, no one anti-malware program does the whole job and does it well, so you need multiple ones. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai... |