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Yahoo! My Ass!

I was just installing the newest version of Yahoo! Instant Messenger (so I can play games with a special person) When I came to that oh-so interesting part of any installation process. The part when you get to choose which parts of the software you want installed, as well as some other features.

Yahoo! has done something interesting here. You can select the Typical install option which will give you the messenger, the Yahoo! toolbar and some “extras”. Down below there are three options, including a checkbox for making Yahoo! your default search.

Well, I didn’t want the toolbar, so I selected the Custom install option so I can, you know, customize my installation. Here is where the interesting thing happened (if you find these kinds of things interesting). I could no longer deselect the “Make Yahoo! your default search” option.

Does anyone else out there hate feeling trapped by software? Please give me some flexibility! I really like Yahoo!’s messenger, but it was almost enough to make me stop the install and keep my antiquated version. But that special person has been bugging me to upgrade so we can play games, so here we are.

Now I’ve got to see if I can uninstall the toolbar. Although I get the feeling it’s an Internet Explorer thing only. Ha ha. The red dinosaur triumphs once again!