Ken Blake, MVP

On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 16:42:01 -0700, bphata
<bphata@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Yes I would like to uninstall it and Photo Gallery and Collaboration and
> Journal. I've been a week taking off all the Trial programs hp put on this
> poor little computer. I don't mean to offend anyone, just clean up my
> computer so when I run Power Defrag and Norton it doesn't take hours. I've
> never seen so many programs I didn't want on a computer that was supposed to
> be just a stock computer. If it can't be done I'll take out Vista and put in
> a stock XP.


> I don't need a yahoo anything, no stock market ticker tape,


Neither of these, and I suspect much of what else you are complaining
about, has anything to do with Vista. These were probably installed by
the company you bought your computer from.


> the
> few programs I have to worry about going out to the internet collecting and
> sending without my knowing it the better. I just purchased two new computers
> because one of my programs went out to the internet and left the door open.
> There should be some way to get a plain brown wrapper computer.
>
> So can you help me remove any of this stuff I don't want or not?
> Thanks in advance,
> Bill in Las Vegas
>
> "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 19:28:01 -0700, bphata
> > <bphata@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > > But this doesn't remove it from my computer, only from my desktop. Space is
> > > very important on my computer.
> >
> >
> > You want to uninstall it?
> >
> > In general, you can't uninstall most Windows components. Whether you
> > can uninstall the sidebar, I don't know.
> >
> > I can't imagine that it takes a significant amount of disk space. If
> > that amount is important to you, you clearly have a drive that is
> > considerably too small for your purposes. Anything you do like this to
> > get rid of small pieces of the operating system, besides being
> > dangerous, would only be a stopgap measure in addressing your issue.
> > It sounds like your real solution is buying more disk space.
> >
> >
> > > "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 17:14:41 -0700, bphata
> > > > <bphata@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Is there any way to remove Windows Sidebar completely from my computer. I
> > > > > prefer a stripped down computer.
> > > >
> > > > Right-click on the sidebar and click "Close sidebar."
> > > >
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