Impolite Installers

[Nish Nishant]

Dario Solera wrote:

I'm quite scared of the comments to the post.

The comments were about Real Player and not about the Real and Quicktime alt players :-) I've been using the alt players for 2+ years now without any problem. Note that, some spurious sites may be distributing spyware-enhanced versions - so you should not download it from some random website.

Regards, Nish

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[Nick Hodapp]

Why are you running Java?

[Nish Nishant]

Nick Hodapp wrote:

Why are you running Java?

All that biking in sub-zero temperatures seem to have had a maundering effect on Maunder. :rolleyes:

Regards, Nish

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[Colin Angus Mackay]

Nick Hodapp wrote:

Why are you running Java?

He's a heathen! Burn the heathen!

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[Charlie Williams]

I'd bet you dollars to donuts that the first thing the installer said was "It is strongly recommended that you exit all programs before continuing with this installation." I guess they really meant it this time. ;P

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[Steve Hansen]

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alternative.htm[^] http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternative.htm[^] That's where I always get mine :)

[Rama Krishna Vavilala]

Are you sure you did not miss this screen: http://www.codeproject.com/script/profile/upload/15383/Capture.JPG[^] I just installed it for Fun and found that dialog at the very beginning of the install.

[Chris Maunder]

I didn't get that screen. That's very weird. But even if I did: Do you really expect me to read such warnings? And do something about them? C'mon, I'm a product of the '90s and have a short attention span.

cheers, Chris Maunder

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[Dan Neely]

good point. while kill all generally indicates a lazy/incompetent author/phb, when the installer asks for a specific app there's generally a reason for it.

-- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.

[J Dunlap]

An idea has crossed my mind several times for a site called installerwatch.com or something like that, where people can submit info about what the installers for different programs do to your system, and what to watch for. You could get info about an installer before you ran it, and hopefully it would also put pressure on developers to do a better job of their installers.

[Marc Clifton]

Did you miss the "Close all applications before installing" message? That usually implies you don't open apps while installing either. Of course, the conclusion is probably based on a faulty premise: there was no "close all apps" message? Marc

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[Vasudevan Deepak Kumar]

Wjousts wrote:

plaster my desktop with icons without asking, mess with file associations

True. I am annoyed with Netscape Communicator Installation. Icons of AOL which I can't use in India, Radio for which I don't have bandwidth and a lot of such things to clutter my desktop. Furthermore, Windows search is disturbed too.

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[Vasudevan Deepak Kumar]

Frank Kerrigan wrote:

You'd think saying no 100 times

Window is frozen from user responses. :)

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[Vasudevan Deepak Kumar]

Too many such messages make us just click 'OK' instead of reading it. There should be way where installer says 'Retry', 'Cancel' just Visual Studio setup doing when an IE or Visual Studio 6 is running.

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[Chris Maunder]

Marc Clifton wrote:

there was no "close all apps" message?

Nope - and I'm usually pretty good about those things. So basically either user error or a bug in the installer. What's new, eh? ;)

cheers, Chris Maunder

CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

[Lost User]

Chris Maunder wrote:

I'm a product of the '90s and have a short attention span.

I think you'll find it was the 80's, that lack of beer consumption has really messed with your mind.

Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004

[Ashley van Gerven]

Chris Maunder wrote:

I didn't get that screen

The reason you didn't get is that Sun have hard-coded the names of all Microsoft-based site owners in their installer ;P

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[Chris Maunder]

Ah...that ol' trick...

cheers, Chris Maunder

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