Google Desktop - when I say "No" I mean !! NO !!

Google Desktop does have its benefits; I enjoy the email indexing, and the Adsense plug-in, and the slideshow - I've also tried out the Desktop SideBar but although it has its advantages ("Newsroom" being my favorite), the picture slideshow is buggy.

Both products - Google Desktop and the Desktop Sidebar - cause a performance hit - obvious slow downs and drive crunching.  So, I tend to only run it for short periods of time. 

DeskTop sidebar is nice and polite when I shut it down. It simply disappears.  That cannot be said about Google Desktop.  Every single time I shut Google Desktop down the same nag screen appears, and the tick box is always enabled.

 

Yes I *do* want to shut down Google Desktop, and I *do not* want it to start when my computer starts.  For pity's sake just accept it and stop nagging.

Published Sun, Mar 5 2006 6:52 by sandi
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# re: Google Desktop - when I say "No" I mean !! NO !!

Tuesday, March 07, 2006 11:23 AM by Alun Jones
Reminds me of my favourite class of dialog boxes. They have a "Yes/No" pair of buttons, and they have a check-box that says something like "Don't ask me this question again."

There is a sort of implication here that checking "Don't ask me this question again" will mean "take what I press next as the answer for ever". Unfortunately, it's usually implemented as "take what I press next as the immediate answer for right now, but do whatever you'd like to do in future".

Alun.
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