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From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on 27 Feb 2010 12:26 [Adding Windows Update newsgroup to the crosspost.] The Browser Choice update cannot be uninstalled. -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002 Ed O'Brien wrote: > Windows Vista Home Premium > > I used to know but forget... Can someone tell me where Windows stores > newly > installed updates? > > I want to uninstall the damned browser choice notice now being presented > every time I boot. > > I just wish that unelected, corrupt bunch of crooks in the EU Commission > would butt out. It was they who forced Microsoft to punish us this way. > Although it would also have been sensible for Microsoft to add a 'Do Not > Show Again' button. > > TIA
From: Ed O'Brien on 27 Feb 2010 12:48 Thanks. Found that out the hard way.... Does anyone know why Microsoft chose to lock this useless device into our computers. I know they had to show it, but why forever? "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:ef9lZI9tKHA.4220(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > [Adding Windows Update newsgroup to the crosspost.] > > The Browser Choice update cannot be uninstalled. > -- > ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) > MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002 > > Ed O'Brien wrote: >> Windows Vista Home Premium >> >> I used to know but forget... Can someone tell me where Windows stores >> newly >> installed updates? >> >> I want to uninstall the damned browser choice notice now being presented >> every time I boot. >> >> I just wish that unelected, corrupt bunch of crooks in the EU Commission >> would butt out. It was they who forced Microsoft to punish us this way. >> Although it would also have been sensible for Microsoft to add a 'Do Not >> Show Again' button. >> >> TIA >
From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on 27 Feb 2010 12:57 Get your facts straight (and maybe read a newspaper every now and then): MS did NOT choose to do this on its own. Windows 7 and Browser Choice in Europe (31 July-09) http://microsoftontheissues.com/cs/blogs/mscorp/archive/2009/07/31/windows-7-and-browser-choice-in-europe.aspx EU ends Microsoft antitrust probe; Accepts browser choice (16 Dec-09) http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=28590 The Browser Choice Screen for Europe: What to Expect, When to Expect It (19 Feb-10) http://microsoftontheissues.com/cs/blogs/mscorp/archive/2010/02/19/the-browser-choice-screen-for-europe-what-to-expect-when-to-expect-it.aspx -- ~PA Bear Ed O'Brien wrote: > Thanks. Found that out the hard way.... Does anyone know why Microsoft > chose > to lock this useless device into our computers. I know they had to show > it, > but why forever? > > > "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > news:ef9lZI9tKHA.4220(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> [Adding Windows Update newsgroup to the crosspost.] >> >> The Browser Choice update cannot be uninstalled. >> -- >> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) >> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002 >> >> Ed O'Brien wrote: >>> Windows Vista Home Premium >>> >>> I used to know but forget... Can someone tell me where Windows stores >>> newly >>> installed updates? >>> >>> I want to uninstall the damned browser choice notice now being presented >>> every time I boot. >>> >>> I just wish that unelected, corrupt bunch of crooks in the EU Commission >>> would butt out. It was they who forced Microsoft to punish us this way. >>> Although it would also have been sensible for Microsoft to add a 'Do Not >>> Show Again' button. >>> >>> TIA
From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on 27 Feb 2010 13:26 <plonk> Ed O'Brien wrote: > Another bad mannered prat...! ...
From: Jean Rosenfeld on 27 Feb 2010 14:37
I have automatic updates off and check MS Update manually. I carefully avoided downloading that one. On MS update it does have a hide check box. "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:ef9lZI9tKHA.4220(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > [Adding Windows Update newsgroup to the crosspost.] > > The Browser Choice update cannot be uninstalled. > -- > ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) > MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002 > > Ed O'Brien wrote: >> Windows Vista Home Premium >> >> I used to know but forget... Can someone tell me where Windows stores >> newly >> installed updates? >> >> I want to uninstall the damned browser choice notice now being presented >> every time I boot. >> >> I just wish that unelected, corrupt bunch of crooks in the EU Commission >> would butt out. It was they who forced Microsoft to punish us this way. >> Although it would also have been sensible for Microsoft to add a 'Do Not >> Show Again' button. >> >> TIA > |