Mac newbie question 83
Well, i'm impressed about one thing. The ease with which SAMBA works on Windows XP. Not so happy about getting WiFi to work on Windows though...
If the app was installed via drag-and-drop, then the only thing left behind will be, probably, a tiny little preference file and maybe some cache files or something. These would be in the obvious places in the Library folder in your home folder. (Specifically in 'Application Support', 'Caches' and 'Preferences'.)
If the app was installed by an installer, it could have put files in other places, but not too many other places. Actually, just about the only additional place you'd usually need to check would be 'Application Support' in the system-wide Library folder (at the root of the hard drive).
Mostly, the app file is the app. Everything the app needs is bundled within. Have a look: Right click the app, and select 'Show package content'. The only other file there'll...
OS X developers are pretty good about naming things so you can tell which app installed them and not putting anything in really obscure places. In particular, third parties will basically *never* install anything inSystem, so the third-party stuff stays well segregated from essential system components. (The one exception is kernel extensions, which need to go inSystem-Library-Extensions, but very few apps install these. In fact, you should distrust any app that does, unless it has a legitimate reason to be installing a hardware driver, which is what kernel extensions are mostly used for.)
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