Re: re CalcPlus - FREE from Microsoft.

From: David Candy (.)
Date: 02/02/05 

Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 00:21:45 +1100

Well you choose Yes not No.

It's an active X control so Start Control Panel - Internet Options - General - Settings - View Objects 

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"Yabbadoo" <lsdolby@ignore.ntlwor.com> wrote in message news:4m4Md.203$Rs4.123@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net...
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> David, I'm legal. Once downloaded, installing it required pre-installation 
> of the verification tool. At least that was what I understood (and did). 
> There's no stated (or obvious) option to install the download without 
> verification tool.
> That's yet more junk on my hard disk, for no apparent purpose (doesn't 
> Windows Update also perform verification check, since SP1?)
> OK - if you insist it isn't necessary - how do I uninstall this verification 
> tool? What's the file name?
> Sincerely, Len
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> "David Candy" <.> wrote in message 
> news:eoHtjzRCFHA.2032@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> It doesn't insist.
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>      Validate Windows and obtain the download
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>     Yes, please validate Windows and take me to the download. (If an 
> ActiveX dialog box appears, please click Yes.)
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>     No, do not validate Windows at this time, but take me to the download.
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> Even where it sys you MUST validate (on some downloads) you can always get 
> it.
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> "Yabbadoo" <lsdolby@ignore.ntlwor.com> wrote in message 
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>> Colin, it's an XP add-on which insists on installing an XP "legal
>> verification" tool before allowing installation
>> Also a follow-up on a previous post (which was in "hardware" group)
>> This prog ain't hardware, but "verification" issue surely is basic XP
>> Len..
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>> "Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(nojunk)@msn.com> wrote in message
>> news:O4l2U2LCFHA.936@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>>> What has this to do with XP?  This is a Windows XP newsgroup.
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>>> "Yabbadoo" <lsdolby@ignore.ntlwor.com> wrote in message
>>> news:dUULd.585$Uj3.77@newsfe5-gui.ntli.net...
>>>> Don't want to be critical, BUT ....
>>>> Have downloaded CalcPlus - released Sept 2004 !!
>>>> Includes Currency Convertor, European currencies to Euro ???  That's
>>>> already YEARS out of date - "local" European currencies don't exist any
>>>> more, have been obsolete about 5 years, when the Euro became standard
>>>> currency for them all !!
>>>> This function has no current usage whatsoever. (Correction - just one -
>>>> for audit/review of  years-old European accounts in fraud or similar
>>>> investigation, to value in "todays" currency). Limited market, I would
>>>> have thought!
>>>>
>>>> Like the other convertor, though ... but again, there's a blip. Fuel in
>>>> UK is sold by the litre, so it would have been helpful to have had a
>>>> "miles per litre" convertor, too (piece of cake to add).
>>>>
>>>> Other than that, it's not bad. However, have I a suspicious mind, or was
>>>> this an insidious way to install a validation tool for Bill to peek into
>>>> my pc by the back door ??
>>>>
>>>> Len
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