Java Installer – another bag of shit installer
Back in May I blogged about the shitty Adobe Acrobat installer that gets in a huff if you don’t allow it to insert its accelerated startup thingy into Windows’ startup items.
It seems that Adobe isn’t alone in writing shit installers that won’t take no for an answer – I’ve just installed an update for Sun Java which wants to insert its Java Update Scheduler into my startup items. I’ve told it no and it’s been trying now for about 15 minutes …
I’ve killed the jusched process but it looks like it’s insinuated itself into a system process somewhere. I can’t recommend Spybot Teatimer enough for stopping this kind of crap.
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Is this because you’re using Vista?
My next computer will be a Mac to avoid all these problems.
August 13th, 2008 at 10:55 amYou could always install Linux – most versions are free, and they avoid all these problems too!
I did visit this link earlier, but was forced to close the browser down when I saw that there were two options labelled “English” – the first was next to an American flag, the second next to the butcher’s apron. Not what I’d care to see before I’ve finished my morning’s coffee!
August 13th, 2008 at 6:28 pmI knew there was a reason why I was ignoring the request to install it for the last few days!
August 13th, 2008 at 7:19 pm