Re: [www-vrml] Tim BL Is Baffled, Too

["George Birbilis" <birbilis@kagi.com>]

think MS did prove at the court that the components that make up the IE
application are necessery part of the OS and although the IE application can
be hidden, its functionality can't be stripped from the OS cause it breaks
up too many other applications (including third party ones) that depend on
those APIs

it's like trying to remove QuickTime from MacOS

btw Automatic Updates depends mostly on BITS [Background Intelligent
Transfer Service] and not much on MSHTML or similar

goodnight,
George

> Right.  But it has to be there.
>
> len
>
> From: George Birbilis [mailto:birbilis@kagi.com]
> > the IE browser
> > is still on the desktop of most of these
> > because Windows Update doesn't work
> > without it.
>
> however, the Automatic Updates should work OK, even is IE is "hidden" from
> the user (Automatic Updates options are in Windows Control Panel and in
> original XP they had moved it to the properties dialog shown when you
right
> click "My Computer" and select properties, but luckily [based on mine and
> suppose others feedback too], they now [at XP SP2] have it available again
> at the control panel)
>

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