I was also recently trying to find a registrar that was not 'evil' and settled on Namecheap after seeing numerous recommendations. They used to be a reseller for eNom but are now a fully accredited registrar.
Disclaimer: I work for a web host and get to deal with registrar BS on a daily basis. We partner with OpenSRS (Tucows) who I would recommend but they do not sell direct to the public.
As the tech peon of our company, I've been battling this all morning. It is beyond me that Microsoft would push something like this out. We have a domain restriction which doesn't allow the users to toggle what is present on the taskbar, so I had to find a roundabout method for disabling it.
The update is "supposed" to ship with an uninstaller. I say supposed to, because it has failed in all instances that I have tried it. There's also supposed to be a directory which contains an installer, but just as conveniently this hasn't been present on any of our workstations.
Run the file spuninst\spuninst.exe with Administrative privileges. Let it do its thing and you'll be prompted to restart. It should be gone at this point.
People keep chiming in that they have a hotkey application which is only 3mb in size. Color me unimpressed.
The application I use on a regular basis is a whopping 20kb and doesn't even need installation:
http://www.bcheck.net/apps/hoe.htm
I've even used it on a on a 486 box running Windows 95.
Since we watch a ton of movies at home, it's nice to be able to pick up tapes for $1. I can purchase used DVDs for $5, but at a dollar a piece I'll get anything on VHS.
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I was also recently trying to find a registrar that was not 'evil' and settled on Namecheap after seeing numerous recommendations. They used to be a reseller for eNom but are now a fully accredited registrar.
Disclaimer: I work for a web host and get to deal with registrar BS on a daily basis. We partner with OpenSRS (Tucows) who I would recommend but they do not sell direct to the public.
The update is "supposed" to ship with an uninstaller. I say supposed to, because it has failed in all instances that I have tried it. There's also supposed to be a directory which contains an installer, but just as conveniently this hasn't been present on any of our workstations.
As usual, the resolution I found came from a random user on a message board: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PageIndex=3&SiteID=1&PageID=3&PostID=301681
Download and extract this file: http://www.2daytech.com/$NtUninstallKB917013$.rar
Run the file spuninst\spuninst.exe with Administrative privileges. Let it do its thing and you'll be prompted to restart. It should be gone at this point.
People keep chiming in that they have a hotkey application which is only 3mb in size. Color me unimpressed. The application I use on a regular basis is a whopping 20kb and doesn't even need installation: http://www.bcheck.net/apps/hoe.htm I've even used it on a on a 486 box running Windows 95.
Since we watch a ton of movies at home, it's nice to be able to pick up tapes for $1. I can purchase used DVDs for $5, but at a dollar a piece I'll get anything on VHS.
Here are some additional (non-torrent) download links : http://www.mp3music.bz/mp3/browse.php?category=603