Re: Be afraid! Be very afraid!

There's an important point here. ALWAYS choose the custom install when
it's offered, no matter what the product. Even if you wind up not
changing any of the preselected options (I almost always do), you'll have
a better idea of what the installer is planning to do to your system.


In microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser N. Miller <anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[Lots of good stuff snipped]

> By contrast, when I got the Yahoo! Messenger alert to upgrade to Yahoo!
> Messenger with Voice (7,0,0,437), things weren't quite what they seemed. I
> got into the install process, and had the option to use either a Standard
> install, or a Custom install. I read the descriptions. No warnings about
> what the "Standard" install entailed; just the usual, "This is optimal for
> most users" type of statement. Talk about intrusive; this installed a
> number of items I had no desire to have installed; BHO in MSIE, home page
> reset, a couple of extra goodies in the Add/Remove programs list. Yikes!

> I uninstalled everything, had an issue with a missing .dll on boot, System
> Restore was hosed; cleaned the registry, cleaned all ypgr files, and
> reinstalled Yaho0! Messenger version 6. Finally, after a couple of hours of
> swearing at Yahoo!, I was back to a normal system configuration. Being the
> glutton for punishment sort of Lab Rat that I am, the next time I started
> Yahoo! Messenger, and got the upgrade notice, I proceeded again. This time
> I selected the "Custom" install. Now I got to see everything listed that
> Yahoo! wanted to install. I unchecked ***ALL*** of the extras. This time, I
> got all that I wanted; just the basic Yahoo! Messenger client. Whew!

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Gary L. Smith
Columbus, Ohio
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