And I removed it, but now 5 minutes later it decided to re-install it, because I really really need it!!!!!! So this is a recursive install! This is just so stupid… (Dare I say typical MS user-friendliness, without starting a war.)
24.10.2007
MS and that stupid “Search Desktop” thingy – 2
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Hey, but mine is almost useful (in the sense of not being useful, but giving me an opportunity to laugh at it) – if I do a web search using it, it gives me results from google in a firefox window. Can't fault it for picking the better options!
Lucky, in fact, as Live search won't let me access it programmatically, probably due to some firewall/poxy issue.
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Why not just be sensible and remove it from your taskbar, as they conveniently let you do – and then you can just get the functionality when you use it.
You chose to let Windows install updated automatically and therefore you get the updates that Microsoft think you need. If you don't want things like this, then turn off automatic installation of updates and pick and choose what you want.
I don't get why people complain about things like this when the options are there for them to get the experience they want. Microsoft can't cater for everybody automagically, and neither can other OS creators.
Well, I do get it.
First of all I can't turn it of, as it is ITNG requirement to have it on automatic update, hence it is on automatic update… And as a princip I think it is a good idea to keep OS's up-to-date due to security features, especially on Windows where there are so many script kiddies who want penetration (of my OS of cause). The update system ought to be those kind of updates… A tick box update system, when installing new features would have been nice. Especially when we are talking features which where already there in the OS, and that worked!
Granted, it isn't MS fault, what I'm at here is that they put it on the task bar, perhaps the single most congested place on (at least mine) the screen. Ok, so if they do provide me with an option to remove it and just use it when I want it, then that would be useful, however I can't find that option. It is not in the option of the search functionality, not the options of the taskbar and I can't find it in the control panel. I'll leave the possibility that I'm a bad hunter (my wife always claims that), but I genuinely can't find it.
The only way to remove it thus far is to uninstall it – an option that will only last for 5 minuttes on my fully updated system.
Thank you Rob for waking up, and show me where to remove it… It wasn't easy to find as there only was a tick without any text!!..!.. But now it is gone indexing my machine, without taking up precious task bar space 🙂