here's a quick solution to all your problems ... reformat and intall linux and all your MS problems will disappear.
I cannot fathom why people who use MS software complain more than the Linux crowd ... either support it or move to the supposed better alternative. I feel like i'm the only one in the universe that has had no troubles with MS software cuz basically ... i've never run into any of these problems. Plus, with the whole Doj fiasco ... all that was asked from MS was to switch off certain apps so that the user can use third party software ... which MS did. If after using a norton app, MS messenger pops up again ... well that's something norton's caused not MS. So that you know, nothing that was originally installed as part of Xp can be deleted by you the user. I'm sure MS is capable of doing this but why should they, and in the case that you really want it off you sys ... you can use third party software to physically remove it. Plus it is MS's software ... why should they even think of unistalling apps that they themselves created for their OS. Here's the scenario ... as impossible or as stupid as it sounds ... bear with me for the sake of it. It's like this, you take in someone who pays you a good sum of rent each month ... he slowly becomes to comfortable and begins to use areas that should be out of bounds ... though you have never stipulated this to him. One day he decides that he doesn't like your furniture, and then goes as far as getting rid of it because he can't get comfortable. He replaces it with old run down furniture that he had in storage, and which he finds more to his liking, though it is completely incompatable with the color schemes and decor in your home. You catch him, and try to stop him ... he decides to bring you to court, and the court rules in his favor cuz you really never specified in a contract what his boundaries where, and because you have been making him pay a large sum for rent. YOU now have to replace your furniture, and live with third party furniture, and you can't do anything to get rid of this renter ... who is causing you all sorts of problems, and discomforts. How is that fair, considering it is your house to begin with? In the end ... MS did create this OS ... they should have the right to do whatever it is they want with it. In fact ... sometimes i think that they should start charging all these third party appz rent, to use space on their OS, then maybe all this complaining or bitching will come to an end (though I doubt that since it is in peoples nature to complain about everything).