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Most Fortune 1000 companies don't allow their end users to install anything so this just causes the IT guy the amount of time it takes to have the config file s
by Guvante 12y ago
Most Fortune 1000 companies don't allow their end users to install anything so this just causes the IT guy the amount of time it takes to have the config file set to "don't do that", heck they probably only have to do it once, or the version they use may not include the toolbar.
- doah78 12y agoAnd most IT Admins know that the best place to get the installer isn't from Java.com that has crapware built into the installer but from the link below which doesn't have crapware built in. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/inde...
- sheensleeves 12y agoI think it's not that nerd outrage isn't a force for change, it's that nerds just find a workaround like this link, and then move on with their life. The rest of people get stuck w/ toolbars, supercookies, etc.
- Silhouette 12y agoYou can also use Ninite, which solves this kind of problem for quite a few popular software packages without having to remember specific workarounds for every one.
- jacquesm 12y agoThat's why he added the 'home computer' bit.
- eitally 12y agoMost Fortune 1000 company's managers also hate Java/Oracle, but it was the safe choice at some point (where the alternative was probably SAP), and now they're locked in.
- stealthlogic 12y ago'tis but a simple registry edit rolled out via Group Policy.