Recent versions of PC Suite are buggy and screw up computers.
I foolishly installed the recent version of Nokia PC Suite 6.83.14.1
It screwed up two totally different computers I installed it on (a WinXP
laptop and a Win2000 Desktop) as follows:
1. On the Win-XP laptop (a top of the line Dell XPS Gen-II), it
absolutely would not recognize a Nokia N95 connected with the
Nokia-provided USB cable. Reinstallation efforts did not fix the problem.
2. Uninstalling it failed by the program's own unistaller software
admission. I then had to go into the Registry and manually remove well
over 300 entries that this evil software had forced into the Registry.
This is outrageous. If I did not do that manual unistallation, line by
line, my computer was unusable as the Nokia software screwed up the
Internet stack -among others.
3. Although the program does not warn the user before installation that
it cannot deal with an existing earlier version (it should have been
able to uninstall its own company's prior versions), it then merely said
"cannot remove prior version"; no reasons why not. Again, I had to go in
manually and remove a few hundred Registry entries in had left behind.
4. Same story on a totally different PC, this one running Win2000 with a
totally different complement of software. (both computers having the
latest patches from Microsoft).
If Nokia has no competent software engineers in Finland who can write a
program that does not cause this mayhem on two totally distinct
computers and operating systems, it should close shop and get into a
different line of business, such as selling lemons on a street corner.
In my many years with computers, I have never experienced such crappy
software; poorly conceived, poorly written, buggy, malicious. Even the
most basic tenants of programming have not been followed by Nokia.
Perhaps its software engineers should be fired and replaced with anyone
who can spell "computer" as the results can only be better.
Stay off it. Unless you are willing to risk (with high probability)
screwing up your computer and having to re-image it from a recent backup
(if you had the foresight to have made one).
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