Comments (25)

1. July 29, 2011
   BlackHoleSun

   I’m glad to see I’m not the only one that does this

2. July 29, 2011
   Andrew

   Ya, I do that too.

3. July 29, 2011
   Blisk

   That’s exactly what I do. Even though they’re grayed out, you can never be sure!

4. July 29, 2011
   Chronno S. Trigger

   Ever since one of the AVG installs switched the home page even if you unchecked the parent box, I’ve always unchecked the lower boxes before the upper ones.

5. July 29, 2011
   K@RiS

   Co sign!

6. July 29, 2011
   greendiamnond

   they will still change your default if you dont uncheck those sometimes

7. July 29, 2011
   Serowman

   I’d never thought of that before but now it’s going to bug me.

8. July 29, 2011
   @TechJLS3

   I hate that! I make sure they all are unchecked.

9. July 29, 2011
   cavalier67

   Doesn’t everyone do this?

10. July 29, 2011
    Carlos Ferrari

    I did that once or twice, but can’t say I always do that.
    But yeah, better safe than sorry. :P

11. July 29, 2011
    Nienhouse

    Good, so I’m not the only one that can’t stand when programs do that. haha

12. July 30, 2011
    DJ Rosen

    They ought to create a virus that does nothing except remove and disable tool bars everywhere.
    I hate those things. Anybody who makes a tool bar should have his personal banking information sent to bad web sites in Vietnam.

13. July 30, 2011
    Matthew

    Seriously thought I was the only person that did this, but seeing the comments it seems I’m not the only one! Phew!

14. July 30, 2011
    Drdan0

    Glad to see others check this as well…how many times have family and friends (or co workers) called in a panic saying “i just loaded a kewl app and now I lost control of my browser” or “whats this new toolbar/app/software I diddn’t load this!” Oh yes you did….

15. July 30, 2011
    Art€

    Use Nitnite and I’tll do it all for you; automatically..

16. July 30, 2011
    bert

    I decided to try Ninite a while back. Then I had to reinstall Windows.

17. July 30, 2011
    montykupo

    yea ninite works sometimes…i have had it work flawlessly…then other times, when i click on one of the programs installed from the ninite package, i get BSoD. so im torn on it.

18. July 30, 2011
    LoWang

    That’s right. Those times when installing software was just easy next, next, next…finish are gone :) Now it is better to be carefull.

19. July 30, 2011
    Tech Scott

    Yup I do that too

20. July 30, 2011
    Michael Foresto

    And I thought I was being a tad bit OCD by doing that. It’s good to hear that I’m not the only incredulous one out there!

21. July 31, 2011
    Ish

    I call it crap 2

22. August 1, 2011
    Confuzzler

    Ditto, ditto and, oh, wait, D to the I to the TTO. Lol. Glad I’m not the only one.

23. August 1, 2011
    Nikky

    I’ve never thought to do this. Might now though! hehe

24. August 2, 2011
    Morely the IT Guy

    If you’re not paranoid, you’re not paying attention.

25. August 2, 2011
    Milo

    @Art€ @bert @montykupo

    Portable apps FTW. Even on local hard drives. The provide the same if not nearly the same experience. My only run in was with foobar2000 (won’t integrate into context menus if it is portable) and 7z (I believe the same problem).