Poll: Do you uninstall when you finish a game?

[almightygherkin]

Not straight away, but about once a year I delete all the crap lying around on my computer that I no longer need, and that would include uninstalling games.

 

[Bobbity]

Nope, I uninstall when Windows has slowed to a crawl. Well, I used to, but it got so incredibly annoying - that and the re-installation of Windows - that I gave up and bought a mac.

As for the games as kind of badges, I have a vertical rack, and the games are split between those I've finished and those I haven't.

Uninstalling a game won't speed your PC up. It'll sit there and take up Hard drive space but won't affect the PC unless you actually run out of space (Or start to).

Macs have nearly exactly the same problems as PC's in terms of slowing down - too many programs running, too little defragmentation... maybe too many temp files and a cluttered copy of what passes as a registry on a Mac. I'm not sure how Macs / Unix / Linux handles those last two, because I don't really use them at all :S

The computer was reasonably old, and I was down to my last 15 gigs or so, what with all the bloody clutter Windows thinks it needs. Also, my Mac's been handling the whole fragmentation process a lot better than my PC did; nearly two years on, and it's hardly slowed at all.

 

[Zhukov]

I delete them if I don't think I'll ever play them again.

For some stupid reason I only gave my Windows partition 350 gig, so I often need the space.

 

[cormacdffy]

Yes I do. I don't see the point in keeping them there when I've finished them

 

[Smooth Operator]

If the game was bad or boring it's gone, usually that are the spoon deep blockbusters.

 

[TheDandyHighwayman]

I never uninstall anything, I do however format my pc every saturday at 3 pm, I think it's some sort of obsessive compulsive thing.

 

[GundamSentinel]

When I finish a game, that means I like it. When I like it, I'll probably play it again, so I'd better leave it installed.

 

[jamesworkshop]

No i tend to keep them for a while depending on if i think that I might want to show them to anyone besides 1TB is enought that i could stick every game I own so space is not an issue

 

[ScumbagEddie]

Only when a drive crashes

 

[Bobbity]

Nope, I uninstall when Windows has slowed to a crawl. Well, I used to, but it got so incredibly annoying - that and the re-installation of Windows - that I gave up and bought a mac.

As for the games as kind of badges, I have a vertical rack, and the games are split between those I've finished and those I haven't.

Uninstalling a game won't speed your PC up. It'll sit there and take up Hard drive space but won't affect the PC unless you actually run out of space (Or start to).

Macs have nearly exactly the same problems as PC's in terms of slowing down - too many programs running, too little defragmentation... maybe too many temp files and a cluttered copy of what passes as a registry on a Mac. I'm not sure how Macs / Unix / Linux handles those last two, because I don't really use them at all :S

The computer was reasonably old, and I was down to my last 15 gigs or so, what with all the bloody clutter Windows thinks it needs. Also, my Mac's been handling the whole fragmentation process a lot better than my PC did; nearly two years on, and it's hardly slowed at all.

TBH, you can do all of that on Windows quite easily, just finding a couple of free programs would have made it seem infinitely faster. For example Defraggler and CCleaner are probably the best out there.

Computer maintenance is the thing most people don't do and is what leads to the slow-creeping-death of your computer. If your make isn't slowing down then it sounds like you have kept on top of it

But that wouldn't solve the hardware issue

In my opinion when your Mac gets too old I would advise getting a PC, purely from the economic point of view it's a lot cheaper, in the short term and long. And if you are willing to learn there is a massive amount more it can offer you in comparison

I'm tempted to, definitely. The problem is that I HATE Vista, XP won't be getting support much longer, and I haven't exactly been hearing good things about Windows 7. I know that macs have a lot of things going against them - the OS needing an update every two years, a lack of games, cost, etc. - but the alternative...

 

[pejhmon]

I used to keep games indefinately out of fear that if I uninstalled and wanted to play it again I'd have to bear the painfully slow internet I had at home. Now I'm at uni (and running out of hard drive space) I'm deleting games that I know I wont replay, or at least for a very long time. Main problem I have is a backlog of games (curse you steam sales!!!, I have about 30 games in my "unfinished" folder) that I need to start so games I finished ages ago (eg. Half Life) are gone (don't even know why I didn't uninstall Richochet earlier ....)

 

[Atheist.]

Currently I don't, but with all my 100+ games form steam installed and some other non steam games my 600 gb hard drive is slowly getting full, maybe when I'm 50 gigs from capacity I might start uninstalling games I've beaten.

Nope, I have a gargantuan hard drive, and I often get impulses concerning which game to play, and I honestly hate the long install-process. (Which is one of the reasons I have more games for my PS3...)

Really? My PS3 takes longer for most games to install than my PC. Usually my lappy installs games in under 5 minutes for the most part. Though Steam takes longer because you need to download it first, of course.

 

[LeonLethality]

I have more than enough space on my computer to leave the games on but if I honestly do not see myself playing the game again I will surely uninstall it.

 

[Evilsanta]

If it doesn't have any replay value I often uninstall it.