Why does installing a game/program sometimes take several hours, but uninstalling usually take no more than a few minutes?

Question

Why does installing a game/program sometimes take several hours, but uninstalling usually take no more than a few minutes?

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Answer 1

Think of your hard drive like a building, you want to install something, like a new library, you put up some walls, paint them, build some book cases, unpack all your books, organize them all onto the shelves, and setup some chairs and lighting. that all takes a fair bit of time.

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Now when you want to unistall something, you take all the books off the shelves and move the furniture out and then just stop going into the room room for now. You don’t bother dismantling the shelves, removing the paint or taking down the walls, if you want to re-use that space later you will just do it then when you are setting up the new room