Installers Hall of Shame

[Darwin]

Courtesy of Bill Pytlovany's blog, here's a link to a listing of program installers that insist on installing "extras" by default, such as toolbars and the like.

The problem has gotten so bad over the past two years that I ALWAYS select Custom install if it's offered to me; not doing so virtually guarantees that I'll be uinstalling something, usually Yahoo toolbar. I'm taking my cue from Bill and bookmarking the list 

[PhilB66]

Related topic 

[tomos]

It's incredible - it seems to have become totally "acceptable"

[justice]

I was thinking of some kind of autohotkey-autoinstaller that would have data files for versions of products and a general settings area where you could check/uncheck 'set desktop shortcut' 'install toolbars' etc that most programs ask, I don't know why the installation routine is not built in in windows more to give these options centrally. Sadly I don't have the time but the idea might help someone

[Curt]

On a side note, we also have the Uninstallers' Hall of Shame....


These are the left-overs ("empty shortcuts") on my desktop  from the last couple of weeks:

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Installers Hall of Shame