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From: Rowland McDonnell on 27 Jun 2010 15:09
Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote:

> Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote:
>
> > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote:
[sni]

> > > Except you can actually switch that off.
> >
> > Not using MS-supplied controls, you can't - you have to manually remove
> > the bloody thing to stop it running. Or so it's seemed here - any time
> > I've installed MS Office, I've had to track down the updater and clobber
> > it myself.
>
> Here, when it pops up you get the option of how often to run it, and one
> of them is manual. After selecting that it never pops up unless you ask
> it to.

Here, it continues to launch at login even if you do that. That's what
I mean by `switch off' - I don't want the software running.

> > > I am not sure if you can switch
> > > the google one off.
> >
> > Easy - unplug the computer, hurl it out of the window, job done ;-)
>
> My grass is so long I doubt it would sustain any damage at all!

It'd land on my kitchen roof if I chucked it out of the obvious window
here - the HDD would certainly survive.

Rowland.


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