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"barrowhill" <barro...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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KB976002 - Microsoft Browser Choice Screen Update for EEA Usesr of Windows XP
I don't wish this screen to appear but I can find no way to prevent it
appearing.
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976002>
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976002
(Gee, thanks for the heads up, MS!)
Barrowhill: could you post a screenshot of the web page you are being shown?
Harry.
Just type "browser choice" into google and there you'll find post showing
screen shot
"Harry Johnston [MVP]" wrote:
> .
>
"Harry Johnston [MVP]" wrote:
> .
>
> I've restored system to yesterday and performed all installs except KB976002.
> This was indicated as High Priority and though now hidden is eeident that t
> has been hidden. Why or Why!!. This should be optional.
It was optional for me ('important' update, not ticked by default).
> Just because EU
> won it's case Microsoft shouldn't go belly up in a fit of pique . The'venow
> provided the wherewithall as demanded by EU; it users choice to perform.
> I've installed firefox and an alternative to IE - I use both. I don't need
> dictating to or being forced to do something. Lets make it optonal.
Intellectually, I'm opposed to this kind of interference by the European
Union. The idea that one software supplier should be obliged to promote
its rivals' products violates the principles of property rights and free
competition. That one jurisdiction (the EU) should be able, by its own
whim, to impose arbitrary punitive conditions on a supplier from outside
its jurisdiction seems to me... perfectly justified UNLESS that
jurisdiction has signed up to an international treaty intended to
promote free trade among nations (e.g. the GATT/WTO). WTO rules surely
need to be amended to enable an appeal to a WTO court by any company
found guilty of an antitrust violation that affects international trade.
(Actually, antitrust legislation should not exist except in so far as it
outlaws the artificial creation of monopolies by governments.)
This is the price we pay for living in the anti-free-trade European Union!
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I'm not Barrowhill, but a final screen shot and description of the Internet
Explorer “ballot screen” that will roll out across Europe shortly.
<http://microsoftontheissues.com/cs/blogs/mscorp/archive/2010/02/19/the-browser-choice-screen-for-europe-what-to-expect-when-to-expect-it.aspx>
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"Harry Johnston [MVP]" wrote:
> .
>
MowGreen
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"Security updates should *never* have *non-security content* prechecked
> Harry,
>
> Just type "browser choice" into google and there you'll find post showing
> screen shot
No such luck, but Engel's URL gave me something to look at.
I very much doubt that there isn't a way to bypass the selection process. What
happens if you choose "Select Later"? Or just close the window?
Harry.
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Selecting later only ensures choice screen opens next boot/open IE, as does
just closing it down. Irrespective of any of these choices. Next time you
restart PC and open IU up pos the choice window. If you close IE then open
in current PC session then no choice window appear. Seem only happens on
startup/restart
"Harry Johnston [MVP]" wrote:
> .
>
The EU required MS to unbundle IE from the OS. MS chose to provide a
browser choice update so you can pick your own - one or more. Providing it
as high priority update ? yes ?, as without a browser you going nowhere;
optional ? why not? most people will already have a browser downloaded and
installed other than IE. But notwithstanding either, MS should have offered
an additional choice button of, for example "choice already installed" and
thus disabled the choice window from appearing again. You need a browser to
get the update!
"MowGreen" wrote:
> .
>
"barrowhill" <barro...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Harry,
>
> Selecting later only ensures choice screen opens next boot/open IE, as does
> just closing it down. Irrespective of any of these choices. Next time you
> restart PC and open IU up pos the choice window. If you close IE then open
> in current PC session then no choice window appear. Seem only happens on
> startup/restart
OK.
Next guess: choose IE, as this is already installed, nothing will happen. Probably.
If that programme is in startup folder, delete it.
THIS IS JUST TO CHECK. I HAVE NOT TRIED THIS.
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I fail to see how one needs to have a browser to be offered this update.
Why does someone need a browser to " get the update " when it's being
offered automatically ?
Are you stating that MS should scan folks computers to see if there are
any alternative browsers installed before offering this update or are
you asking that there be a choice that states the User already has such
a browser and MS should stop pestering them ?
The EU needs to be concerned with more important matters instead of
continually trying to force Microsoft to do something that just ends up
annoying Windows Users. Let them force Apple or Google to end the abuse
of their monopolies and then I'll believe this isn't just a vendetta
against MS.
There is no point in explaining anything to that plonker because he/she is
now a transsexual and so has lost all his mental faculties.
Can't you the sort of statement he made?
"The EU *forced* MS to do this. The High Priority given to this "update"
was dictated by the EU. You need to direct your complaint towards them, "
Now these nutters haven't got a clue how EU operates.
As far as the solution is concerned, I have setup my system in such a way
that I don't receive any updates post SP3 and so I am not affected by this.
Microsoft patches are completely waste of time because they are doing more
harm than any security they are supposed to provide.
This patch does not remove reliance on IE to get updates and so there is
still some more fight in the EU about this. IE should never be part of the
OS but Microsoft in their wise wisdom decided to do to beat all the browser
competition.
hth
"barrowhill" <barro...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Are you saying that reverting to a prior restore point successfully removed
the "Browser Choice" update and that you have now selected "Don't show this
update again" in Windows/MS Update?
MS states that "Once installed this update cannot be removed". I assume this
means that it doesn't appear in Add/Remove programmes even with "show
updates" ticked and that there is no uninstall option. However, if you were
successful, I can see many people using "System Restore".
"barrowhill" <barro...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Dont forget to back up first....
Why is there no "dont show this again option"?
barrowhill wrote:
Browser Choice
23-Feb-10
Today, an update was applied that on opening IE onstartup gives me the option
to install numerous other browsers. I do not want to as already installed
those I want and I cannot find anyway to stop this page opening again.
Help.....I'd like to remove this update or switch off browser choice screen
but suspect that EU forced this issue on all of us. What can I do ???????
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I had to disable pop-up blocking in the Google Toolbar, and I was then
able to click on Install Windows Explorer (which I am determine to stick
to thanks to the EU).
My existing version of IE8 was un-installed, and replaced by a more
recent version. The "choice" screen no longer appears when I boot, but
there is (now WAS!) an icon on the desktop to bring up the "choice"
screen. Its target is the following file:
C:\Windows\system32\browserchoice.exe\launch.
On my wife's XP machine, I entered the custon section of Windows update
and deselected the KB976002 update, so It will no longer be offered to
me. Being cynical, I wonder just how long it will take the EU to force
Moicrosoft to repeat the dose.
Interestingly my Windows 7 machine is not affected as I purchased by
copy from Amazon (in the UK) as an order in advance of publication, and
they kindly supplied me with a non-European english version.
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This the same troll who use to use the date/year as a User Name, now
changes it to gibberish, does not comprehend grammar, and now recommends
that no updates be installed after SP3 is applied.
This delusional advice is from an anti-social, foul-mouthed psychopath
whose ISP is DSL-TISCALI-UK. It's about as sound as listening to the
inmates of a loony bin.
PLONK !!!
go to startup and deselect C:\System32\browserchoice.exe
I'm about to do this now, so I'm hoping it works for me too!
Best of luck,
Luke
I have just received the same update and have to say that I strongly object
to new software being installed on my machines in this manner. I too have the
browsers I want, already installed.
I cannot find it in Add/Remove programs, rolling back to a checkpoint before
the update does not work.
To my mind this is akin to my machine being hacked and therefore must be
illegal
Anyone else feel the same?
Anyone from Microsoft willing to comment?
There is no evidence that Microsoft updates are making computers any safer.
If at all, people's machines are becoming less safer because of these
patches. For example only a few days ago "Gordon" complained that his
system is ridden with viruses and he was blaming me for not patching my
system. Apparently, if I don't patch my system, he is the one who gets
viruses!!. Now this is bizarre!!.
I have therefore, concluded that it is the M$ patches making his system
weaker.
hth
"bigbo" <bi...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> You are the only one to blame yourself. Microsoft patches are a complete
> and utter waste of time and you can stop them by going to Security Centre
> and turning off Automatic Updates. I don't get any updates and so my system
> is as secure as possible.
That's plain BS and you're aware of that. Do you really think, that running
your avast! toy does resolve the security issues which are *needed* to be
fixed with updates?
> There is no evidence that Microsoft updates are making computers any safer.
LOL
> If at all, people's machines are becoming less safer because of these
> patches. For example only a few days ago "Gordon" complained that his
> system is ridden with viruses and he was blaming me for not patching my
> system. Apparently, if I don't patch my system, he is the one who gets
> viruses!!. Now this is bizarre!!.
Have you ever heard about Bot nets? Obviously not.
> I have therefore, concluded that it is the M$ patches making his system
> weaker.
I have the strong impression that "not only" your unpatched Windows XP SP3
is weak.
Bye,
Freudi
The Browser Choice Screen for Europe: What to Expect, When to Expect It (19
February 2010)
http://microsoftontheissues.com/cs/blogs/mscorp/archive/2010/02/19/the-browser-choice-screen-for-europe-what-to-expect-when-to-expect-it.aspx
--
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The Browser Choice update cannot be uninstalled.
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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
"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABe...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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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
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If you don't know, you don't need to make a comment...! If you want to make
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f*****g dense!
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> 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
> --
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Ed O'Brien wrote:
> Another bad mannered prat...! ...
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"Security updates should *never* have *non-security content* prechecked
I think the correct text is "Do not offer me this update again or I'll
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Just my way of saying your post helped make my day...
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bigbo wrote:
Hi BarrowhillI have just received the same update and have to say that I
25-Feb-10
Hi Barrowhill
I have just received the same update and have to say that I strongly object
to new software being installed on my machines in this manner. I too have the
browsers I want, already installed.
I cannot find it in Add/Remove programs, rolling back to a checkpoint before
the update does not work.
To my mind this is akin to my machine being hacked and therefore must be
illegal
Anyone else feel the same?
Anyone from Microsoft willing to comment?
"barrowhill" wrote:
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You say that using System Restore got rid of it, great. However, other
posters are reporting that using SR does NOT remove it from their system and
are being advised to use a registry hack to stop it running.
Could it be that it depends on the OS whether SR works or not?
"Ed O'Brien" <edward....@deletebtinternet.com> wrote in message
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> Fortunately, I DID manage to avoid the "Choice" update.
>
> You say that using System Restore got rid of it, great. However, other
> posters are reporting that using SR does NOT remove it from their system
> and are being advised to use a registry hack to stop it running.
>
> Could it be that it depends on the OS whether SR works or not?
Unlikely. More likely the users reporting that system restore didn't work
either (a) used a restore point after the update was installed; or (b) did
successfully remove the update, but didn't manage to stop it from being
installed again. I'm not entirely certain how automatic updates interacts with
system restore, but it's possible (depending on various factors) that the update
would be reinstalled again almost straight away.
Harry.
I too am not sure how AU works with SR. All I'm trying to establish is
whether SR (to a pre-update checkpoint) IS an option, i.e. will it remove
the update? There are so many conflicting posts.
(a) I think most users would know to use a pre-update checkpoint.
(b) Does the update immediately reinstall (because Auto Update settings have
not been altered), or is it not removed by SR in the first place?
It may be that some users think they have removed it and they haven't. Some
use Firefox as their default browser and apparently don't get the "Choice"
window. Others suggest the only way to stop it running is with a registry
hack.
No doubt it will become clear eventually.
Knowledge I will keep for the rest of my life thanks to you.
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No problems after that I just put the shortcut on my desktop into the
recycle bin, job done, this is a Windows 7 desktop machine.
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"barrowhill" <barro...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I've restored system to yesterday and performed all installs except
> KB976002.
> This was indicated as High Priority and though now hidden is eeident that
> t
> has been hidden. Why or Why!!. This should be optional. Just because EU
> won it's case Microsoft shouldn't go belly up in a fit of pique .
> The'venow
> provided the wherewithall as demanded by EU; it users choice to perform.
> I've installed firefox and an alternative to IE - I use both. I don't
> need
> dictating to or being forced to do something. Lets make it optonal.
>
>snip>
<.> wrote in message news:uVuu3sGu...@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
Joan Archer wrote:
> I don't see what the problem is I installed it when I saw the page for the
> other browsers I just clicked on IE, as that is my browser of choice,
> after
> taking me to the Microsoft IE Home page it told me I already had it set as
> the default and all I had to do was click the icon to put it back on my
> taskbar as the install had removed it from there.
>
> No problems after that I just put the shortcut on my desktop into the
> recycle bin, job done, this is a Windows 7 desktop machine.
>
>
I have never come across anything so pattently obvious or stupid in my 36
years in IT.
To conform with EU regulations Microsoft has injected this annoying code
into an update basically to "piss users off" but to point the figer at the EU
and say "Sorry guys but they made us do it!!"
Microsofts aim is not to give people "choice", people ALWAYS have had the
choice of which browser to use simply by installing them.. I run Firefox and
Safari at home , just to keep an eye on what is available so I have aleady
exercised my right to chose. The EU obviously haven't got a clue about the
dissruption and anoyance these daily messages are going to cause Millions of
users.
We are also , and I do not need a crystal ball to predict this, going to be
inumdated with fake update messages from every hacker, attacker and cracker
laka who will see this as a Golden opportunity to try and dupe gullible users
into clicking on links to infected websites and download. Microsoft will then
happily blame the EU for all the problems..
EU should stick to doing what they do best. Fraud and fiddles.
Catbiter
As usual, it's the End User who is left holding the proverbial stick.
Or rather, getting hit in the head with it due to a bureaucracy tussling
with a corporation.
I have no idea how MS and the EU came to a resolution on this absurd
browser issue but the Opera folks definitely deserve some of the blame,
too. They're the ones who first initiated the legal action and balked at
some of the proposed resolutions.
Folks still won't be installing Opera and it's not because they are
unaware of it's existence ... they just DON'T LIKE IT !
Maybe this is the way to go ?
What makes me laugh about this, is the comment made by Mozilla Foundation
chair Mitchell Baker. He described the news as "an important milestone
towards helping people take control of their online lives." Just how exactly
is being annoyed by a pop up screen every time I start a new browsing
session, helping me take control of my online life!? If there was an option
to turn it off then maybe.
I don't suppose for one minute Mr Baker is thinking about all the free
advertising he's now getting. Microsoft should never of been forced to
advertise it's competitors products, let alone for free. I'm sorry, but if
people in this day and age don't know there's alternatives to IE, then more
fool them. There's no excuse for not shopping around or feigning ignorance.
Christ, we all know how to use Google don't we? What's next, that's all I
can say. Oh and thanks EU but I happen to like bendy bananas too ;o)
That's the way I went. Followed up by "Hide this update" from the WUP
screen of courese.
The problem seems to be what people who haven't done this can do to
get rid of the nag screen at startup.
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Exactly.
I avoided it by doing what you did.
Problem is there are conflicting reports about whether System Restore works
or not. Some say it does work, others say it doesn't. I haven't seen a
definitive answer to this.
If it does work, fair enough. Those that say it doesn't work may not have
altered their Automatic Update settings, so the update is reinstalled again.
Whatever the case, the longer it goes on, SR will cease to be an option.
Others are adamant that the update cannot be removed by SR and that the only
option is to delete the registry key:
"You can hack it out of the registry. Go to
HCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run and remove BrowserChoice
Key, "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\browserchoice.exe" /run
Don't forget to back up first...." (Keith Robinson)"
Does the method used depend on your OS? This could be the reason for
conflicting reports.
I would like to be able to advise my friends of the correct (only?) way to
remove the update.
Why are there complaints about this? Your computer hasn't been
"Hi-jacked"... It's just a small program which gives you the choice of
selecting another Browser by default... It's up to you which Browser you
set as default
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Hope this helps a few people!
"Smirnoff" wrote:
>
> Sorry, don't understand the second sentence of your post. "This was
> indicated as High Priority and though now hidden is eeident that t has been
> hidden.".
>
> Are you saying that reverting to a prior restore point successfully removed
> the "Browser Choice" update and that you have now selected "Don't show this
> update again" in Windows/MS Update?
>
> MS states that "Once installed this update cannot be removed". I assume this
> means that it doesn't appear in Add/Remove programmes even with "show
> updates" ticked and that there is no uninstall option. However, if you were
> successful, I can see many people using "System Restore".
>
> "barrowhill" <barro...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A3243539-CD86-41A7...@microsoft.com...
> > I've restored system to yesterday and performed all installs except
> > KB976002.
> > This was indicated as High Priority and though now hidden is eeident that
> > t
> > has been hidden. Why or Why!!. This should be optional. Just because EU
> > won it's case Microsoft shouldn't go belly up in a fit of pique .
> > The'venow
> > provided the wherewithall as demanded by EU; it users choice to perform.
> > I've installed firefox and an alternative to IE - I use both. I don't
> > need
> > dictating to or being forced to do something. Lets make it optonal.
> >
> > "Harry Johnston [MVP]" wrote:
> >
> >> Looks like this is legit:
> >>
> >> <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976002>
> >>
> >> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976002
> >>
> >> (Gee, thanks for the heads up, MS!)
> >>
> >> Barrowhill: could you post a screenshot of the web page you are being
> >> shown?
> >>
> >> Harry.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2010-02-24 10:33 a.m., barrowhill wrote:
> >> > Michael,
> >> >
> >> > KB976002 - Microsoft Browser Choice Screen Update for EEA Usesr of
> >> > Windows XP
> >> >
> >> > I don't wish this screen to appear but I can find no way to prevent it
> >> > appearing.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > "Michael" wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Exactly what update are you talking about? Sounds to me like you've
> >> >> been
> >> >> hijacked.
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> "Don't pick a fight with an old man.
> >> >> If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you."
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> "barrowhill"<barro...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> >> news:964E8C60-74CA-42B1...@microsoft.com...
> >> >>> Today, an update was applied that on opening IE onstartup gives me
> >> >>> the
> >> >>> option
> >> >>> to install numerous other browsers. I don't want to as already
> >> >>> installed
> >> >>> those I want and I cannot find anyway to stop this page opening
> >> >>> again.
> >> >>> Help.....I'd like to remove this update or switch off browser choice
> >> >>> screen
> >> >>> but suspect that EU forced this issue on all of us. What can I do
> >> >>> ???????
> >> >>
> >>
> >> .
> >>
>
>
>
> .
>
I'm not a developer, but in my 5 pc's (XP, sp3) Automatic Updates are set to: "Notify me, but don't automatically download or install them." Notification then appears in the task bar and when I open the Choose...dl - window I can check which updates I want. If I uncheck some update and close the window I'll be informed that I haven't choose the update to download. In that window I can also check: "Don't notify me about these updates again". Then that update won't bother me anymore. Well, if I later, for some reason, want that update anyway I go to the MS Windows update site, where I can see all my updates, also the ones I haven't yet.
I don't want to turn all updates off, since it could cause problems - there are some important ones. Sometimes I don't know how to react. Then I just Google it and get advice, in matter of fact that's the way I found this place. And after reading many comments in this site and MS own info I have decided that I don't dl "Choice Screen".
Well, I know this won't help them with the program already installed. I've been there too and learned the hard way! So for the future...
Thanks a lot and I hope you won't find me me silly , simple etc when I'm not specialist nor native English speaker/writer. (There's some very rude talk in this forum;).
Dadu
barrowhill wrote:
Browser Choice
23-Feb-10
Today, an update was applied that on opening IE onstartup gives me the option
to install numerous other browsers. I do not want to as already installed
those I want and I cannot find anyway to stop this page opening again.
Help.....I'd like to remove this update or switch off browser choice screen
but suspect that EU forced this issue on all of us. What can I do ???????
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Don't know if this is still relevant, I suffered the "enhancement" as well
and I use Firefox. However was able to avoid a reinstall by tweaking the
registry...
- From a command prompt run regedit
- In path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE...SOFTWARE...BrowserChoice double click on
Shortcut and change the value to 0 (Zero). Thus far it seems to work i.e. the
panel is installed and deactivated w/out a need to download another browser
"barrowhill" wrote:
> Today, an update was applied that on opening IE onstartup gives me the option
> to install numerous other browsers. I don't want to as already installed
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some intelligence like yours to advice Microsoft Customers what to do
in situation like yours.
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