Re: How can I kill IE?!?!?!!?

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

From: Sam (g_reate_xcalibur_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/28/05 

Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:33:31 -0500

Apparently, _Dan_, on 28/01/05 11:26,typed:
> IE is not fine and needs an overhaul in my opinion. Mozilla Firefox is not a
> complete cure of course but it is a start. As far as Norton goes I have sent
> off a letter to Symantec because I am concerned about how their products add
> to many entries to the registry and make an efficient Windows computer into a
> hunk of garbage, imo.

And just see what happens if you try to uninstall it. It leaves registry
entries all over the place.

I am not a Windows programmer, but shouldn't there be a protocol to make
Windows programs such that the programmer only decides which registry
entry to make? Upon uninstallation, the registry entry should be deleted
automatically. Just playing with the idea.

Sam. 

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