Comments on: Windows Live Installs More than it Tells You

By: Cindy Wakfer

Cindy Wakfer — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:15:07 +0000

Hello,
I am trying to uninstall Windows Live Photo Gallery from my computer, how do I do that?? I have tried using the remove programs but it keeps coming up saying there was a fatal error when installing and it will not let the program be uninstalled. It is a pain as updates keep coming up and I don’t want to download them. So if anyone knows could you please let me know.

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Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:16:49 +0000

[...] нескольких сайтов и форумов сообщили (например http://www.zoliblog.com/2007/09/07/windows-live-installs-more-than-it-tells-you/), что программное обеспечение Windows Desktop Search также [...]

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Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:21:41 +0000

[...] The product revision in question is Windows Desktop Search 3.01 (WDS), which Microsoft had been pushing out with Windows Live automatically. Some users charge that it seems as if the new version is being [...]

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By: David Arno’s Blog » Microsoft Update Strikes Again!

David Arno’s Blog » Microsoft Update Strikes Again! — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:52:11 +0000

[...] you use Windows XP and have installed Office 2007 or Windows Live Photo gallery, then you may have already encountered Microsoft products installing a new search tool (Windows [...]

By: Marc Savoy

Marc Savoy — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:18:23 +0000

Microsoft Updates Windows Without Users’ Consent
Microsoft has begun patching files on Windows XP and Vista without users’ knowledge, even when the users have turned off auto-updates.
http://www.windowssecrets.com/2007/09/13/01-Microsoft-updates-Windows-without-users-consent
Let’s hope this catches on.

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:26:41 +0000

Michael, it’s not really a Writer issue, as it turns out, Photo Gallery needs Desktop Search. Whether it’s good design decision or not, doesn’t matter; users should be made aware.

If this is a fundamental architecture issue, it won’t change just because users (including yours truly) complain. But the disclosure may change. Btw, I know I have quite a few Microsoft readers

My personal solution: uninstall everything (Control Panel allows to do it one by one) except the one really good product, which is Writer.

By: Michael Gannotti

Michael Gannotti — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 19:58:05 +0000

Have yo contacted the Live Writer team directly about this? They should be let know that their is ambiguity as to what is being installed, especially while this is in beta so that it is not there in release code. I know I personally hate it that on a number of downloads for other company products they try to sneak in un-asked for installs like the Google Toolbar, Adobe Updater, iTunes, etc. under the default settings. Gets me upset when others do it and if Microsoft is doing something similar under an install I can certainly understand you being upset and think you should let them know directly while the piece is only beta. Part of trying out beta is feedback as to issues and this is clearly and issue that should be noted.

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 17:44:34 +0000

Mike, I try to avoid it as much as I can. Tried this one, but it did not survive – already uninstalled.

By: Marc Savoy

Marc Savoy — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:01:21 +0000

Praying it is ‘a coincidence’ is wishful thinking. I can’t tell you how many times Microsoft products have made themselves the default selection without permission, examples of Microsoft’s brazen aggressiveness even more egregious than these.
I’ve had programs such as Paint, Windows Player, others, become disabled when changing my default choices from Microsoft.

At least Google pretends being benign by claiming ‘to do no evil’. It would be
laughable Microsoft ever adopting some similarly idealistic corporate mantra,
the very notion a complete and utter anathema to the sinister mindset pervading Microsoft. They revel in their corporate persona as the vicious, acid-blooded
Alien of the corporate world and nothing, not, morality, civility, decency,
privacy, is going to get in their way.