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[mantahatch]

microsoft has just updated my windows pc. it installed internet explorer 9 without asking and just shut my pc down and restarted it with no warning. I don't appear to be able to uninstall it, and the worse bit is I have lost the bar at the top with "file", "favourite" etc.

I can find my favourites but don't like the way IE9 does it.

Oh I am mad.

And I only just got used to using IE8. 

[RobG]

Control panel..........add/remove programs................get rid if you don`t like and revert to IE8

[aaronjb]

You should be able to uninstall it - I have on my Windows boxes.. Control Panel->Installed Programs->Windows Updates or something like that, from memory (since I'm sitting at a Mac right now)

[mantahatch]

Yes, sussed it. It did not appear in the old add/remove programs (sorry programs and features) at first. After about 10 minutes the add /remove programs has been updated aswel and I have just removed.

Yippee, happy bunny again.

Thanks chaps.

[mantahatch]

Forgot to add, I am a bit of luddite, and it takes me awhile to get used to new things and get them how I like it. I probably will go for IE9...... eventually 

[Auto Addict]

Forgot to add, I am a bit of luddite, and it takes me awhile to get used to new things and get them how I like it. I probably will go for IE9...... eventually 

I was the same, but wouldn't go back fro IE9 now

[cem_devecioglu]

you can disable/suspend updates..

[mantahatch]

Forgot to add, I am a bit of luddite, and it takes me awhile to get used to new things and get them how I like it. I probably will go for IE9...... eventually 

I was the same, but wouldn't go back fro IE9 now

Do you know how to get toolbar up with File, Edit, View, Favourites, Tolls, Help. ? If I could have that I probably would go for it. Thanks.

[mantahatch]

you can disable/suspend updates..

Happy to have auto updates Cem. Don't want any nasty bugs. As I will admit to visiting a couple of dodgy joke sights. 

[Auto Addict]

Forgot to add, I am a bit of luddite, and it takes me awhile to get used to new things and get them how I like it. I probably will go for IE9...... eventually 

I was the same, but wouldn't go back fro IE9 now

Do you know how to get toolbar up with File, Edit, View, Favourites, Tolls, Help. ? If I could have that I probably would go for it. Thanks.

Right click at the top, and everything is there.

[mantahatch]

Forgot to add, I am a bit of luddite, and it takes me awhile to get used to new things and get them how I like it. I probably will go for IE9...... eventually 

I was the same, but wouldn't go back fro IE9 now

Do you know how to get toolbar up with File, Edit, View, Favourites, Tolls, Help. ? If I could have that I probably would go for it. Thanks.

Right click at the top, and everything is there.

Ah, boy do I feel silly now.    Thank You

[Rods2]

you can disable/suspend updates..

Where my PCs are on 24/7, I found the only sensible way to control updates is to let MS inform me when they are available, so I decide what I want to update, when I want to update, and most importantly of all when I want restart my PC. 

One day hopefully somebody will come out with a proper secure mainstream desktop operating system and on the command line I will be able to stop / start or restart a package using something along the lines of:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/program_to_restart restart

Linux rules ok. 

[Martian]

you can disable/suspend updates..

Where my PCs are on 24/7, I found the only sensible way to control updates is to let MS inform me when they are available, so I decide what I want to update, when I want to update, and most importantly of all when I want restart my PC. 

One day hopefully somebody will come out with a proper secure mainstream desktop operating system and on the command line I will be able to stop / start or restart a package using something along the lines of:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/program_to_restart restart

Linux rules ok. 

Never gonna happen, whatever one makes another man can break.

[Kevin Wood]

you can disable/suspend updates..

Where my PCs are on 24/7, I found the only sensible way to control updates is to let MS inform me when they are available, so I decide what I want to update, when I want to update, and most importantly of all when I want restart my PC. 

One day hopefully somebody will come out with a proper secure mainstream desktop operating system and on the command line I will be able to stop / start or restart a package using something along the lines of:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/program_to_restart restart

Linux rules ok. 

Linux, Apple stuff, Android, etc.. All make Microsoft's offerings look pretty 1990's 1980's these days, especially when it comes to package management and updating.

[Rods2]

you can disable/suspend updates..

Where my PCs are on 24/7, I found the only sensible way to control updates is to let MS inform me when they are available, so I decide what I want to update, when I want to update, and most importantly of all when I want restart my PC. 

One day hopefully somebody will come out with a proper secure mainstream desktop operating system and on the command line I will be able to stop / start or restart a package using something along the lines of:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/program_to_restart restart

Linux rules ok. 

Never gonna happen, whatever one makes another man can break.

I agree with that, I should have said more secure.

Recent Plesk exploit problem is a good example.