Well, maybe not literally. When I booted up this morning, my first thought was "eugh - where did that come from?!", as I spotted the little Windows Search box embedded in the taskbar. It wasn't there yesterday... maybe it came through with the Adobe Reader update last night? No... must have been some random fascist in the I.T. department?
Sadly not - a quick visit to
The Register shows that thousands of users across the land have had this "upgrade" thrust upon them, and are now suffering massive slow-down. Irate sys admins are running around trying to uninstall said update, which from a quick look, doesn't do anything too useful.
To get rid of this fine example of
bloatware, follow these steps:
- Right-click on your Taskbar. Select Toolbars --> click once on "Windows Search Deskbar".
- Open Control Panel --> Administrative tools - Services
- Scroll down to Windows Search, double-click it.
- Set the startup type to Manual, then stop the service.
- Close the Control Panel.
- Breathe a sigh of relief.
Oddly, the main complaint from users is that it makes their computers slow down. Having spent the princely sum of £380 on new PC components last night, I'm wondering why anyone should have a slow computer in this day and age. That small sum of money has bought me a top-of-the-range Intel Core Duo processor, with a 4mb (yes - 4mb!!!) level 2 cache, a whopping 2 Gigabytes of RAM, a rock-solid motherboard, 250GB of fast SATA hard disk space, and a pretty nifty graphics card. Plus a few other odds and ends.
I might leave my Desktop Searchbar enabled as a mark of smugness... :)
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