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From: ykä on 8 Apr 2010 03:46
I bought a new laptop, which had a preinstalled trial copy of MS-Office. I
uninstalled it, since I use OpenOffice. Now Windows update program every day
suggest me to install Office Genuine Advantage Notification -tool (KB949810).
This is frustrating, since I don't have any kind of MS-office.
How can I avoid this? I don't want to install unnecessary programs into my
new computer. Is it possible for Microsoft to somehow check the existence of
any MS-office program (legal or illegal) before offering these kind of
updates? I red in the net that it is not possible to uninstall this OGA after
its installation.

So what should I do? Do I have to choose between:
1) installing a program I don't want
2) every day uncheck the checkbox in Windows Update to not install it
3) Not to use Windows Update?

All of these are something I don't want to do.
From: DL on 8 Apr 2010 04:19
Did you also uninstall the Activation Assistant?
Run MS Update manually, modify the settings to ignore this update

"ykä" <ykä@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I bought a new laptop, which had a preinstalled trial copy of MS-Office. I
> uninstalled it, since I use OpenOffice. Now Windows update program every
> day
> suggest me to install Office Genuine Advantage Notification -tool
> (KB949810).
> This is frustrating, since I don't have any kind of MS-office.
> How can I avoid this? I don't want to install unnecessary programs into my
> new computer. Is it possible for Microsoft to somehow check the existence
> of
> any MS-office program (legal or illegal) before offering these kind of
> updates? I red in the net that it is not possible to uninstall this OGA
> after
> its installation.
>
> So what should I do? Do I have to choose between:
> 1) installing a program I don't want
> 2) every day uncheck the checkbox in Windows Update to not install it
> 3) Not to use Windows Update?
>
> All of these are something I don't want to do.

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