Me: I live in Seattle with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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Well I also discovered there is an Install Shield Updater. I hate crap like that. I was wondering how to remove it and I found this.
The latest Nikon NEF Codec for Vista installs this gem without my permission.
You can download this application and evict the updater from your machine. Keep it in your portable apps folder.
Why does this stuff bother me? Cause each of these applications runs all the time doing nothing useful. The frequency with which all these products get updated does not warrant something running all the time.