MSN Search Toolbar <<>> O My GOD

[Horace Nunley]

This is is the worst program I have EVER seen from Microsoft, and I have
always defended them.

This is 10 times worse that the old one with that annying dog, and the
impossible navigation (how hard can they make it to restart the search??)

This one is like stepping on a minefield full of buzzers and razors. It
rattles your figgin nerves so hard when you accidentally call this stinker
up.
Why why why me?????????????????????
Who the hell let this one out of the doggy poop garbage can?
gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwdddd

[Richard Urban]

You installed Desktop Search?

Personally, I can not understand why anyone would install "any" search bar.
They are almost always optional with a software install and can be
deselected when using a custom install.

I go to many customers home and find this crap on their computer (AOL,
Yahoo, Google etc). Some customers have the top three inches of their
Internet Explorer window filled with these extra bars. It leaves darn little
room to actually see a web page. When asked how it got there they get
defensive and say "not me". Well, they don't get installed by themselves!
Someone clicked "continue". (-:

If people would pay more attention to what they are installing, and use a
custom install, they would see what is actually being installed on their
computer.

At this point, look in add/remove programs and see if it can be uninstalled.

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



"Horace Nunley" > wrote in message
...
> This is is the worst program I have EVER seen from Microsoft, and I have
> always defended them.
>
> This is 10 times worse that the old one with that annying dog, and the
> impossible navigation (how hard can they make it to restart the search??)
>
> This one is like stepping on a minefield full of buzzers and razors. It
> rattles your figgin nerves so hard when you accidentally call this stinker
> up.
> Why why why me?????????????????????
> Who the hell let this one out of the doggy poop garbage can?
> gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwdddd
>

[Horace Nunley]

you would think you could trust Windows to do....Windows














"Richard Urban" > wrote in message
...
> You installed Desktop Search?
>
> Personally, I can not understand why anyone would install "any" search
> bar. They are almost always optional with a software install and can be
> deselected when using a custom install.
>
> I go to many customers home and find this crap on their computer (AOL,
> Yahoo, Google etc). Some customers have the top three inches of their
> Internet Explorer window filled with these extra bars. It leaves darn
> little room to actually see a web page. When asked how it got there they
> get defensive and say "not me". Well, they don't get installed by
> themselves! Someone clicked "continue". (-:
>
> If people would pay more attention to what they are installing, and use a
> custom install, they would see what is actually being installed on their
> computer.
>
> At this point, look in add/remove programs and see if it can be
> uninstalled.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>
> Quote from George Ankner:
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>
>
>
> "Horace Nunley" > wrote in message
> ...
>> This is is the worst program I have EVER seen from Microsoft, and I have
>> always defended them.
>>
>> This is 10 times worse that the old one with that annying dog, and the
>> impossible navigation (how hard can they make it to restart the search??)
>>
>> This one is like stepping on a minefield full of buzzers and razors. It
>> rattles your figgin nerves so hard when you accidentally call this
>> stinker up.
>> Why why why me?????????????????????
>> Who the hell let this one out of the doggy poop garbage can?
>> gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwdddd
>>
>
>

[Baloo]

Horace Nunley wrote:

> This is is the worst program I have EVER seen from Microsoft, and I have
> always defended them.

Why defend a convicted monopolist? That would be like defending Standard
Oil (now Canadian-based Imperial Oil) in the 1930s...

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[Baloo]

Please quote in the same order we all read English: Conversational order.
http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting

Horace Nunley wrote:

> you would think you could trust Windows to do....Windows

What makes you think that? The source code is not publicly available for
peer review, so what makes you think it does anything it claims to do
properly? Software and medicine have one major thing in common: People
are willing to make any claim to make it sell if they don't have to allow
other people to take a look and make sure it's going to work as expected.
Closed-source, proprietary software allows for zero peer review, thus zero
guarantee it will work as advertised. You were warned about this when you
agreed to the Microsoft End User License Agreement: Software won't work as
advertised.

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[Tom Willett]

Another self-appointed net nanny.

"Baloo" > wrote in message ...
> Please quote in the same order we all read English: Conversational order.
> http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting
>
> Horace Nunley wrote:
>
>> you would think you could trust Windows to do....Windows
>
> What makes you think that? The source code is not publicly available for
> peer review, so what makes you think it does anything it claims to do
> properly? Software and medicine have one major thing in common: People
> are willing to make any claim to make it sell if they don't have to allow
> other people to take a look and make sure it's going to work as expected.
> Closed-source, proprietary software allows for zero peer review, thus zero
> guarantee it will work as advertised. You were warned about this when you
> agreed to the Microsoft End User License Agreement: Software won't work
> as
> advertised.
>
> --
> Baloo
> email & xmpp:
>

[Baloo]

Tom Willett wrote:

> Another self-appointed net nanny.

Not a net-nanny, sorry. I do appreciate a basic effort at keeping threads
readable, though: This is a very high traffic newsgroup with poor
propagation. Articles get dropped frequently, thus good quoting is more
important here than most groups.

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