This is probably halfway off the subject but I am so sick of software apps trying to take care of me. It isn't just Windows Update, although it is definitely one of the leading offenders. ask.com, which I continue to try eradicating without success, keeps installing itself as my default search agent. I keep telling Windows no, I want to use Google, and boo, there ask.com is again. Yahoo keeps thinking it has all the information I will ever need and reinstalling itself as a toolbar. It's enough to drive a person to the Mac.

>Even MS applications cause the dialog to appear. AFIAK, the only exceptions are Windows Updates.
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>>Is it only clean when we install a Microsoft application? I mean, I believe that I have installed a bunch of non Microsoft product and didn't see that dialog all the time.