I have noticed that, in the Object Desktop download center in Stardock Central, I have a listing for both WB4 (beta) and WB5 (beta).
At the moment they both say that I have WB 4.96[b].003 installed, but I think that this causes a lot of difficulty when trying to upgrade.
With my most recent download of WB5, for quite a while my systray WB icon was saying that I had WB 4.5 installed. I had to go through several uninstalls, reboots, redownloads and reinstalls before I finally got WB5 to be the active program.
For WB 5 users, shouldn't WB 4 simply disappear from the options list?
Or am I supposed to do some unknown (to me) series of uninstalls, deletes and reboots in other areas of the system to get rid of (unwanted) traces of WB 4?
Also given the number of comments I see out there about upgrade problems, is there a reason why the install function for new Stardock programs does not have built into it all the command codes to execute the proper deletes, installs and reboots to complete a correct upgrade the way so many other software programs do?
To use an admittedly obnoxious example, the last time I upgraded Windows Outlook Express over the internet, it was a simple matter of downloading files, hitting the button and letting the program handle the work. No deletes, no uninstalls, no reinstalls. The upgrade process was built into the program. Can't Stardock do this?
Failing such a solution, couldn't the upgraded program from Stardock at least include a text file that tells us what actions to take to accomplish a proper upgrade and reinstall? If nothing else it would cut message board traffic (and bandwidth costs) by a hell of a lot.
Thanks for any comments
