Hi Intuit!
You guys really need to clean up your bloat.
I installed Quickbooks Tools Hub today, and ran Quick Fix (which incidentally failed) and File Doctor (which succeeded but found nothing wrong). Then I uninstalled both.
I was very disappointed to find that 10 minutes using this software left all kinds of unwanted remnants behind on my system. Here are the details, generated using a snapshot-compare utility I ran before and after:
https://i.imgur.com/VqsnwEr.png
(Click the image to zoom in and see detail)
I realize some of the remnants are supporting dependencies (e.g. Visual C++ Runtime) where the convention may be to leave those behind (to avoid breaking any other software installed in the interim). I work in the software industry, and advise my clients to try and avoid shared dependencies in order to eliminate conundrums like this (it's not as hard as you might think, especially with modern compilers and post-build packagers).
But even after taking that into account there is still a lot of garbage here that remains. You don't even do the user the courtesy of removing the broken File Type Association.
For a company of accountants and bookkeepers, you guys have become awfully freewheeling about desktop software. Please pass this report along to your developers and ask them to clean up their act!
In the meantime, I wouldn't shy away from recommending users who care about system bloat to avoid using this tool on anything other than a sacrificial desktop or VM environment. It saddens me to make that statement.
This may sound extreme, but all the little tidbits from poorly crafted software like this add up and developers need to get the message that some of us users out here care about it.
Thanks!
