Fortunately, I DID manage to avoid the "Choice" update.
You say that using System Restore got rid of it, great. However, other
posters are reporting that using SR does NOT remove it from their system
and are being advised to use a registry hack to stop it running.
Could it be that it depends on the OS whether SR works or not?
Unlikely. More likely the users reporting that system restore didn't
work either (a) used a restore point after the update was installed; or
(b) did successfully remove the update, but didn't manage to stop it from
being installed again. I'm not entirely certain how automatic updates
interacts with system restore, but it's possible (depending on various
factors) that the update would be reinstalled again almost straight away.
Harry.
Thank you, Jean. I also have installing set to manual and I wish I had
done the same as you and ignored it. As it is I have done a System
Restore which got rid of it. Now it is the only one sitting in
"Windows Update".
(Sorry aboout the rude elements in the thread... Not my usual style in
front of a lady)!
message I have automatic updates off and check MS Update manually. I
carefully avoided downloading that one. On MS update it does have a
hide check box.
[Adding Windows Update newsgroup to the crosspost.]
The Browser Choice update cannot be uninstalled.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002
Ed O'Brien wrote:
Windows Vista Home Premium
I used to know but forget... Can someone tell me where Windows
stores newly
installed updates?
I want to uninstall the damned browser choice notice now being
presented
every time I boot.
I just wish that unelected, corrupt bunch of crooks in the EU
Commission
would butt out. It was they who forced Microsoft to punish us this
way.
Although it would also have been sensible for Microsoft to add a
'Do Not
Show Again' button.
TIA