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skypeenglish at lists.tffppodcast.com (Bill White via Skypeenglish)...

#457

After updating to Skype7.8 this morning, I found that a Bing process was running in my task manager, and runs every time at startup. The name Bing wasn't in any of the services listed.

Has anyone else had this problem? I didn't see any boxes to uncheck at the time I ran the update file which would have opted me out of getting this Bing process, and having my home page and search providers changed in my Internet browsers. Did I miss some check boxes, or do they put this on everybody's computers who update to Skype7.8 now?

Thank you.
Bill White billwhite92701 at dslextreme.com

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skypeenglish at lists.tffppodcast.com (Doug Lee via Skypeenglish)...

#465

There are indeed checkboxes to turn these things off during
installation. I installed 7.8 and unchecked them on my way through. To
find them, make sure you Tab around every screen during installation
to see what's there. I don't remember the sequence well enough to tell
you exact field names, but I remember first seeing a screen with a
checkbox for installing Skype Click to Call, then another screen with
two checkboxes, one for "Make Bing my search engine" and the other for
something else. Every single time I run a Skype installer, all three
of these are checked by default.

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On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 06:52:20PM -0700, Bill White via Skypeenglish wrote:
   After updating to Skype7.8 this morning, I found that a Bing process
   was running in my task manager, and runs every time at startup. The
   name Bing wasn't in any of the services listed.



   Has anyone else had this problem? I didn't see any boxes to uncheck at
   the time I ran the update file which would have opted me out of getting
   this Bing process, and having my home page and search providers changed
   in my Internet browsers. Did I miss some check boxes, or do they put
   this on everybody's computers who update to Skype7.8 now?



   Thank you.

   Bill White [1]billwhite92701 at dslextreme.com

   __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus
   signature database 12127 (20150820) __________
   The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus.
   [2]http://www.eset.com

References

   1. mailto:billwhite92701 at dslextreme.com
   2. http://www.eset.com/

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skypeenglish at lists.tffppodcast.com (Andre Polykanine via Skypeenglish)...

#468

Hello Doug and all,

More  than that, there is a piece of software called Unchecky. What it
does is, well, unchecking likely unwanted checkboxes:
http://unchecky.com/



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------------ Original message ------------
From: Doug Lee via Skypeenglish <skypeenglish at lists.tffppodcast.com>
To: Bill White via Skypeenglish
Date created: , 7:33:26 AM
Subject: [Skypeenglish] Bing Processes installed after updating Skype

      There are indeed checkboxes to turn these things off during
installation. I installed 7.8 and unchecked them on my way through. To
find them, make sure you Tab around every screen during installation
to see what's there. I don't remember the sequence well enough to tell
you exact field names, but I remember first seeing a screen with a
checkbox for installing Skype Click to Call, then another screen with
two checkboxes, one for "Make Bing my search engine" and the other for
something else. Every single time I run a Skype installer, all three
of these are checked by default.

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 06:52:20PM -0700, Bill White via Skypeenglish wrote:
   After updating to Skype7.8 this morning, I found that a Bing process
   was running in my task manager, and runs every time at startup. The
   name Bing wasn't in any of the services listed.

   Has anyone else had this problem? I didn't see any boxes to uncheck at
   the time I ran the update file which would have opted me out of getting
   this Bing process, and having my home page and search providers changed
   in my Internet browsers. Did I miss some check boxes, or do they put
   this on everybody's computers who update to Skype7.8 now?

   Thank you.

   Bill White [1]billwhite92701 at dslextreme.com

   __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus
   signature database 12127 (20150820) __________
   The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus.
   [2]http://www.eset.com

References

   1. mailto:billwhite92701 at dslextreme.com
   2. http://www.eset.com/

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the battle."
--Helen Keller (in a letter to the president of Radcliffe College)
Thanks for posting to the skype english list.

to contact skype support with any questions regarding your account email en_support at skype.net

To  access scripts for the latest version of skype go to
http://www.dlee.org/skype

To contact the list owner send a message to
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and for a searchable archives page go here.
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