On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 2:20 PM, mike smith <meski...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 11:13 AM, David Gardiner <da...@gardiner.net.au> > wrote: > >> VMs and Docker are great for isolating things. >> >> Also now with Windows 10 being able to do a 'refresh' (leaving all your >> documents and source files etc alone) combined with something like >> Boxstarter (or even just Chocolatey), being able to rebuild your machine >> can be done relatively painlessly (eg. a few hours, or overnight). I do >> like the idea that recreating my development environment is pretty straight >> forward. >> >> Do watch out for having too many versions of SQL Server installed - it >> can end up making your PATH environment variable too big and then "bad >> things" start happening. >> > > THis. Why are apps so terrible at managing adding and removing themselves > from the path? > > Many apps also suck at managing their registry keys after uninstalling/installing. Some just leave the keys there, some don't update them, some don't even use them and so on.
