Re: Download To Desktop
From: John Gregory (jaygreg90_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/04/05
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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 02:37:45 -0500
>>It depends on how you see "Outlook ain't broke". It surely works fine,
but it has lots of security issues, and Thunderbird is commonly
considered the more stable and safe choice.<<
The security issue was the initial interest. Then the files system sounded
intriguing. But when I read somewhere it took someone two hours to set up
his email, I worried about the complexity and time of failing back to
Outlook if I didn't like what I found. How difficult would it be?
"Mario Berger" <no_damned_spam@nospam.no> wrote in message
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> John Gregory wrote:
>> This concerns a program I downloaded to my desktop but didn't install;
>> Thunderbird - an email program by Mozilla. First, I was surprised it
>> downloaded to the desktop without asking where I wanted it.
>
> If you are using the Mozilla Firefox browser, that is its default
> behaviour. You can change it by editing the preferences in "Edit -->
> Preferences --> Downloads".
>
>> I was given two options: Install or Remove. I chose Remove. The file went
>> away but the window remained open giving me an option at the bottom to
>> Close. I closed it and was surprised to find the icon on my desktop. I
>> highlighted it and found it contained slightly less than the size the
>> program was reported to be; exactly the size, however, if I roughed to a
>> whole number.
>
> I don't know about the installatoin behaviour, but the size issue is
> merely a mathematical issue, since for example 2,048kb are exactly 2mb,
> but also 2,050kb or 2,046 will report as 2.0mb in the Windows Explorer.
>
>> Thinking I missed something about in the download instructions, I
>> repeated the process and decided to let the download complete again to
>> the desktop. I ended up with TWO icons. I deleted one and left the other.
>> NETHER of these two were "installed".
>
> Well, you downloaded two setup programs of the same application to your
> dektop, so now there are these two files on the desktop.
>
>> I just ran a search for "thunderbird" and found the desktop entry, a
>> Recycle bin entry, three Temporary Internet Files, three mozilla entries
>> identified simply as "mozilla (www.mozilla.org)" , one "texturizer
>> (texturizer.net)" and one "Windows\Prefetch" entry. All these entries
>> appear to be preceded by either a dot, a apostrophe, or pipe "|"... but
>> not as long. I have no idea what those little marks mean that precede
>> everything.
>
> Files in the Temporary Internet Files usually have strange filenames. I
> wouldn't worry about them. You seem to have visited the sites mozilla.com
> and texturizer.net, which are both official and safe sites.
>
>> I could use some comforting that I haven't screened anything up here as
>> well as some instructions for getting rid of the icon that's armed to
>> begin the setup routine.
>
> Just right click the remaining icon on the desktop and choose delete, it
> should then be deposited in the Recycle Bin (which you could then empty).
>
>> I've read more about the email program and don't think I want to tackle
>> it at this point. Outlook "ain't broke" yet so ... why fix it!
>
> It depends on how you see "Outlook ain't broke". It surely works fine, but
> it has lots of security issues, and Thunderbird is commonly considered the
> more stable and safe choice.
>
> HTH,
> ~Mik
>
> --
> "The geek shall inherit the earth."
> -- Rainer Wolfcastle in "Undercover Nerd"
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