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Microsoft does something right!

They've put a "nuke" button on IE7 to kill *all* the add-ons and whatever, essentially returning it to as-installed without re-installing (actually if you re-install, it tries to keep all that stuff, bookmarks and so on, for you).

Tools->Internet Options->Advanced->Reset

Rude and crude, but sometimes extraordiary measures are called for (besides if you ever uninstall it, they probably have legitimate worries you might not re-install it).

Needed this to kill some unwanted ask.com crap.. don't *ever* install their stuff. Had to re-install Firefox and wipe out the associated registry and directories. 8-(

They must be paying companies by the number of initially installed copies.. it's bundled along with some freeware and the installation opt-outs vary from misleading to outright lying.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

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Spehro Pefhany
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"installation opt-outs vary from misleading to outright lying" .. sounds just like M$.

Reply to
Robert Baer

Nope. I drove by the Redmond campus earlier today and it isn't a smoking crater.

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Paul Hovnanian P.E.

I switched to Linux when the conversion to XP happened. I haven't really been following M$ in detail since then. It no longer has a large direct impact on my life.

From time to time, I have to reproduce a file from my backups because the company server lost them, open a file and save it in a different format so that someone running one version of software can read a file created by a different version and stuff like that so I can't claim no impact.

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MooseFET

You're an idiot if you cannot manage the document creation task well enough to keep it from happening.

The main reason being that you are too goddamned retarded to embrace the required knowledge you need to operate efficiently. You would rather piss and moan and claim that MS gave you a hard way to go.

Truly pathetic, you are.

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Archimedes' Lever

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