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Title: Amazon(warning!) movie download service vs. Apple's
Post by: redrumloa on September 09, 2006, 06:49:02 PM
CNET Alpha Blog: absolutely do not try Amazon Unbox
 (http://reviews.cnet.com/4531-10921_7-6636289.html)

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Merritt writes, "So, in summary, to be allowed the privilege of purchasing a video that I can't burn to DVD and can't watch on my iPod, I have to allow a program to hijack my start-up and force me to login to uninstall it? No way. Sorry, Amazon. I love a lot of what you do, but I will absolutely not recommend this service."


I'd wait until Tuesday when Apple is expected to launch their new movie download service, and new widescreen Video iPods.
Title: Re: Amazon(warning!) movie download service vs. Apple's
Post by: motorollin on September 10, 2006, 07:47:28 PM
I found this part quite worrying:

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... ADVWindowsClientService.exe is connecting to the Net without your knowledge, even when uninstalling

Hmmmm, maybe Brian Valentine is teaching Amazon the Microsoft way :roll:

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Title: Re: Amazon(warning!) movie download service vs. Apple's
Post by: c64_d0c on September 10, 2006, 07:57:43 PM
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Title: Re: Amazon(warning!) movie download service vs. Apple's
Post by: adolescent on September 10, 2006, 08:00:59 PM
And iTunes doesn't connect to the internet "without your knowledge", run at startup, etc.?  Sounds like the author is a bit Apple biased.  

The fact that he couldn't stop/disable a service tells me he's not much of a Windows user at all.  
Title: Re: Amazon(warning!) movie download service vs. Apple's
Post by: LoadWB on September 10, 2006, 08:34:16 PM
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adolescent wrote:
The fact that he couldn't stop/disable a service tells me he's not much of a Windows user at all.  


To me, the fact that he uses MSCONFIG to do this work rather than as a reference, then actually do the work (properly) himself tells me this story.  MSCONFIG does not display all of the potential hiding places -- ActiveX cache is one of them, the Shell registry is another, and so on.

Windows Defender or a combination of tools from SysInternals are much better suited for this kind of work.