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Title: Why is Internet Explorer still working when it was uninstalled?
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Published: Apr 4, 2011
Author: me
Post Date: 2011-04-04 11:01:34 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Comments: 50

I uninstalled it from "add or remove programs" in the control panel and it successfully uninstalled (or so it said), however, when I attempt to open a link from an e-mail, instead of the link opening in Firefox, it opens in IE as if it were never uninstalled.

So how the heck is this happening when it was uninstalled and doesn't appear to even be on the computer? More importantly, how do I get rid of this POS program? I'm tired of fighting with it.

Has anyone else experienced this?

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#7. To: F.A. Hayek Fan (#0)

Buy a Mac.

wakeup  posted on  2011-04-04   11:53:25 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Buy a Mac? Kind of an expensive option if what you want to do is just get rid of IE. You can get almost any flavor of Linux for nothing and run it alone or as a dual boot system if, for example, you're a gamer. I guess Microsux does have some advantage there but almost any Linux beats it hands down on about everything but games.

James Deffenbach  posted on  2011-04-04   12:55:14 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Buy a Mac? Kind of an expensive option if what you want to do is just get rid of IE. You can get almost any flavor of Linux for nothing and run it alone or as a dual boot system if, for example, you're a gamer. I guess Microsux does have some advantage there but almost any Linux beats it hands down on about everything but games.

I ran Ubuntu for about a year, and while I found it acceptable I still prefer Mac OS X. On ease of use it wins hands down over both Microschlock and Linux. I am not a gamer so that is not a consideration at all. I have avoided games because they are a time sink. I would rather use my time doing stuff I enjoy more rather than getting mind-trapped into some gamer fantasy world.

So, for me the only consideration is does it do what I need simply and without getting in the way. For that OS X wins hands down. I browse, use the word processor, and an occasional spreadsheet. A nice DB would be nice but it is not a must have so I have not shelled out the $$$ for one. My all time favorite will no longer run under the current OS - it was a freeform database called Fact Finder which allowed me to keep organized stacks of data sheets. Very useful for a collector of odd bits of information, but alas it is no longer compatible here some 20 years down the road from when I first bought it, and it has never been updated to run on the current OS.

Original_Intent  posted on  2011-04-04   13:54:56 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Nice thing about Linux is it's free. So are the thousands and thousands of available programs. No viruses ever like Mac too. None of those annoying windows updates or pop-ups either. Like James says, you can have dual boot. Windows and Linux. Once you get Linux, you'll likely never use Windows though.

wudidiz  posted on  2011-04-04   15:15:17 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Once you get Linux, you'll likely never use Windows though.

I'll never use Broken Windows period. My order of preference runs OS X, and then Linux. Microschlock figures in there nowhere. Since I use it only for writing and browsing Linux would work fine but it is just a bit more knowledge intensive and so gets in the way of doing work. If you like fussing with your computer Linux is just peachy. If you just want it to get out of the way and let you work then OS X. If you like cursing at your computer and pulling your hair out then Windows.

Original_Intent  posted on  2011-04-05   2:51:51 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

If you like cursing at your computer and pulling your hair out then Windows.

I have the latest and greatest from MS, and some serious hardware, so I can not take the Mac side in this. Last time I used a Mac, it was about 10 years behind what a PC could do.

In fact, in various real world tasks, my machine blows away even most serious machines out there in terms of actually doing real work. It didn't even cost that much money to build, you just have to get the right components.

FormerLurker  posted on  2011-04-06   2:52:42 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

I think it depends upon the kind of work you are doing. Apple, the Mac, got handed a big setback in the time that Scully ran the company. He managed to take a thriving franchise that had a growing market share, and tank it. At that time, pre Scully, the Mac was THE machine to have for graphics and serious print production. A lot of developers fled the Mac World when they crashed to just 2 or 3 percent of the market. The Mac is now back at about 15 percent and growing. As it holds, and hopefully expands, market share then the developers will return. Some already have. It is going to be interesting to see how it shakes out. There is a different mix now than in the late 80's/early 90's with the Linux world taking a larger share in competition to both. For what I use it for I prefer a Mac.

Original_Intent  posted on  2011-04-06   3:31:37 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

When I used one about a decade or so ago, it was simply for use as a workstation that I could connect to a UNIX server with. It sucked big time.

I had built my own PC back then which ran circles around it, and I am talking 15 years ago.

Nowadays, I'd pretty have to say I do quantum jumps with what I have now.

FormerLurker  posted on  2011-04-06   3:36:17 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

15 years ago would have been during the time they were recovering from having Scully nearly destroy the company. It was really only with the advent of the iPhone that they really began to take off again. The current OS is completely different from what was running on those '95 machines. The only similarity is the visual interface and the label. The current OS (OS X) is built on a Linux Shell and is light years removed from the machine you didn't like. And while there are some software packages that are available only on Windows machines OS X is much more stable, much less buggy, and very very rarely crashes, and I don't even have the latest and greatest. I'm still running 10.4.11 and they are just about to release 10.7. It doesn't bother me though because it still does what I need it to do - reliably.

Original_Intent  posted on  2011-04-06   3:58:19 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

And hell, I haven't even bothered moving up to I7, I'm still on a late generation quad core of the Core Duo 2 line.

Besides a nicely overclocked quad, I have high performance memory and a very nice NVidia graphics card which equals or surpasses their latest offerings.

The motherboard and power supply aren't too shabby either.

FormerLurker  posted on  2011-04-06   4:06:42 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

On a fast machine like yours and good security, there's nothing wrong with windows 7.

wudidiz  posted on  2011-04-06   4:39:04 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

good security, there's nothing wrong with windows 7.

Actually, Windows 7 itself provides a good deal of the security. That, and a decent anti-virus package like Symantec Internet Security Suite prevent pretty much anything nasty from getting onto your machine.

Windows 7 can scale it's memory footprint depending on the installed memory, and from what I've seen it does a good job of that.

I have a lot of memory installed, and it'll take up what it needs, but I still have half of it free usually (talking about gigs of memory free). On lesser machines with 1 GB, it'll scale down to 500 MB for the OS and cached programs, leaving 500 MB free.

FormerLurker  posted on  2011-04-06   4:46:18 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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