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micky:
Ok fair point.
You are correct in that I didn't take into concideration the fact that other people may not have heard of the alternatives.
"What about if some other schmuck " I'm a schmuck. Now I'm offended :D Just kidding.
Unfortunatly I can't install the alternatives, which is why I wanted to know how to clear the real hidden files as well.
Calum:
:D i didn't mean you were necessarily a schmuck!
anyway, try purgeie, it seemed to work fine the once that i tried it, otherwise, you'll have to make a DOS startup disk, and boot up yr machine using that, then manually delete the files as described in this article:
http://www.linuxfactory.ie/llfadvoc/llfadvfm.html
you can read the follow up article here:
http://www.dw003a6090.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/discuss.html
in case you are really interested about it...
good luck and all that!
slave:
Microsoft cares about its customers and would never collect information from them without their consent. IE will never go away as long as bug-ridden shit like Mozilla and it-renders-everything-horribly Opera are its only competition.
Calum:
quote:Originally posted by Windows XP User #5225982375:
Microsoft cares about its customers and would never collect information from them without their consent.[/i]
--- End quote ---
They already have your consent.What you fail to mention is that if you use a copy of windows, then you are bound by Microsoft's windows end user licence agreement. It contains a clause by which you are required to consent to Microsoft gathering information about you. Bill Gates himself admitted that internet exploder and winblows mediocre player both gathered information about the user.
quote:IE will never go away
--- End quote ---
You're right, it won't go away. apparently, it's the only browser that is so unstable that it cannot be removed from its native operating system. Every other browser can be installed like any other program. Only IE requires a particular version of windows to run. And windows requires IE by turn, so the only way IE will go away, is if Microsoft gets put out of business. And roll on, i say.
quote:as long as bug-ridden shit like Mozilla and it-renders-everything-horribly Opera are its only competition.
--- End quote ---
Sticks and stones. Do you really want to stoop to this puerile level? like a cornered rat? i only ever use those browsers and together they are completely unstoppable. They have many more features between them than IE has, or ever will have. Also, your moronic assumption that they are the only competition could not be further from the truth. What are lynx, links, arachne, konqueror, galeon, offbyone, iCab and netscape if they are not browsers? go to download.com and search for "browser", you will get between 200 and 300 results. And before you start about netscape doesn't count and so on, netscape has the gecko engine, and mozilla has the mozilla engine. They are totally different browsers.
Moron.
[ June 06, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]
Heru:
Opera renders 99% of everything correctly, and often better than IE. The only time Opera has problems with rendering is if the webmaster messed up the HTML. You see IE corrects HTML on a per view basis, and if you test a buggy page in it, it might look good; there are a few idiots out there who only test there page in IE and as a result miss some errors(and piss off 10% of all web users, soon to be 35% when AOL switches).
And if mozilla is so buggy, why then is AOL switching to it in force? AOL 8.0 will be powered by it. I happen to know a few people who are beta testing it for AOL, and they have no complaints at all, it renders better than before and is faster.
And a noteable note is that a few browsers are based on mozilla; like Galeon, Konqueror, and Nautilus; and the gecko engine Netscape uses is somewhat based on mozilla, although it is very different. There are tons of browsers not based on mozilla or gecko, though(like icab, Opera, Lynx, Links, and many more).
Windows XP loser #whocares, why do you still post here? Is it fun to bash things which you know nothing about? I highly doubt you've even read MS's EULA, or tried Linux or Opera. Please stop spitting out canned opinions which you get from pro-MS sites. Oh and fuck off.
[ June 06, 2002: Message edited by: Heru ]
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