In a message dated 12/10/2002 3:32:41 AM Eastern Standard Time, kirklists at wanadoo.fr writes: > > Except that part is downright wrong. Since applications can install things > in many places, that only works for some programs. The biggest problem is if > an application installs a daemon that launches at startup. Apps can also put > lots of stuff in Application Support (though it's no > problem if these things > stay there). I still maintain that in OS X applications do not install things in many places. I have close to fifty applications on this machine and I'm not seeing bits of applications scattered here and there. (Everything from big Pagemaker to little haxies.) Yes in OS 9 parts were put everywhere. But in OS X if parts are being put everywhere...they are being quite well hidden. Paula