Tech stuff

Monday, March 30, 2009

Internet Explorer v8... Just say no!

I was silly enough to download and install IE8.

I've tried running it for about a week. I can no longer put up with the slow internet experience. I don't know what they've done, but for me, in my experience, it has been really crap. I am going back to IE7, which was at least a decent improvement on IE6.

Where do you want to go today? I want to go back to IE7 and I like Windows XP thanks very much!!

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Tormented...

So, the computer I am using previously had McAfee Antivirus installed on it.

You'd think it would be easy to uninstall, but nooooo.... Turns out it's as hard to get rid of as the malware/viruses/evil applications that it is supposed to protect you from...

Outlook kept bugging me about some error - something about mcafee. So of course they'd want you to stump up more money for something that sucks up a lot of your pc resources.

I got rid of the errors by going into outlook, under tools/options, then other tab, and clicked advanced options.



After getting in here, I had to go click on the Add-in Manager button to finally find the culprit.



Can I easily erase these 2 items from the list? No way, I'd probably have to try rebuilding the machine, and even then, I am sure somehow this malware would creep back in...

Not happy Jan!