changes your default search provider to Ask and makes Ask.com your home page.
Curious about something, what if one has a Group Policy in place that doesn't allow changing home page or search provider, is that by-passed by this? Maybe the policy is only valid through IE options, don't know for sure but I want to think that it wouldn't change with the policy in place
I don't think it will over ride the Group Policy. The thing is you can uncheck those two items during install and it wont even try to make the changes.
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changes your default search provider to Ask and makes Ask.com your home page.
Curious about something, what if one has a Group Policy in place that doesn't allow changing home page or search provider, is that by-passed by this? Maybe the policy is only valid through IE options, don't know for sure but I want to think that it wouldn't change with the policy in place
I don't think it will over ride the Group Policy. The thing is you can uncheck those two items during install and it wont even try to make the changes.
Jim
Yes I'm aware of the un-checking. I was just curious about the GP
I say BOO to those people who just blow through dialog prompts, EULA's and Accept screens without having any clue whatsoever to what they are agreeing to.
Avoid anything that installs anything other than the software you wanted to install.
Since XP and now win 7 i have been using and satisfied with Firefox's reader "Foxit". Lately i have been 'hit' with reminders of an update for this reader and finally said yes to my regret. It was an update for this reader to be able to create pdf files. Well, it must have missed my eye and now...
I have some pdf documents which cannot be searched using Foxit so I assume I need to use an OCR capability. Does anyone know of a free OCR plugin or do I need to go for Foxit pro?
Edit: after digging around a bit I gather the "Tesseract" OCR engine (free) is used by most including Foxit pro I...