This morning was just a typical day starting out with nothing unusual happening, until I fired up Windows Vista Ultimate Edition. I immediately spotted the warning from Windows indicating a protection and service were not working properly. Then I received a pop up asking if I wanted to send a report to Microsoft, Sure, why not. Then I noticed that Live One Care was not working correctly and that my anti-virus protection was turned off.

I fiddled with it for 30 minutes or so, but no go. I couldn’t get it to function no matter what I tried. And here is my personal feelings about rowdy software that misbehaves. DUMP IT ! I have spent to much of my waking hours talking to tech. support, applying fixes and patches, searching the Internet for answers, and just flat out wasting more of my time. My feelings are there are to many products available for us users, why waste time trying to fix what should of been fixed before it ever was released.

Rant off. OK, I feel better. Sure, there are going to be some issues with software. And yes I do apply fixes and patches. But in all honesty, this was a beta test that I volunteered to try and it was free. But I also knew in the back of my mind that if this software acted up, off it goes. And off it went.

And after the uninstall IE popped up a Microsoft site wanting to know why I had uninstalled the product. And the site didn’t even work right. I answered the first question, clicked on Next, nothing. Clicked Next again, nada. 5 more times, nothing. That’s it. Closed IE, rebooted. Fini.

So back over to AVG and installed their Free product. Works fine.

[tags]vista, live one care, uninstall, [/tags]