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Is there a difference between Incredimail and the stuff supplied by HotBar? Incredimail seems to be endorsed by Microsoft but that doesn't make me feel much better. HotBar is a horrible thing to get rid of and am wondering if the same is true of the other one?

Not that I have to have any of it, but...
 
Cathie, Nothing by MSN makes me feel well at all. I'm changing to Earthlink. Soon. Now if I could just find my old DOS Handbook....and fire up the backhoe to lift it! Last one I saw was about 6~800 pages of commands.

Gosh! I LOVE computers!
 
Incredimail is so extremely frustrating!

ooh, DOS, I still remember thinking that X Tree Gold was unbelievable!
 
Incredimail is only good if you want to send "pretty" emails and have the butler yell out You've got Mail... My girlfriend swears by incredimail and loves it. But me, I can take it or leave it. I use Outlook as I like reminders popping up to tell me what to do.


I like hotbar as it dresses up your computer so you aren't staring at a grey border, you can have anything you choose to look at, or have it change everytime you open your search engines.

oops I forgot to say.. Like I say, incredimail lets you jazzes up everything, but you will find most of them do the same thing, lets you have incoming and outgoing..

cya
 
Just be aware that Hotbar is spyware. It collects and sells your browsing habits to third parties, so you can get targeted ads. I believe it also puts ads for itself on all your outgoing emails and attaches itself, like a parasite to Outlook, Outlook Express, and Internet Explorer.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/adware.hotbar.html

Incredimail isnt too much better. Here's a review http://www.mouthshut.com/readreview/14515-1.html

Both will eat up a lot of system resources and slow you down somewhat, because of the work they're doing behind the scenes.

I hope this helps. I haven't tried either of these personally, but I've purged them from many client machines. AD-AWARE should remove em automatically...

Mike
 
Originally posted by Lance E:

ooh, DOS, I still remember thinking that X Tree Gold was unbelievable!
MS-DOS?! I prefered N-DOS, nothing like being able to change directories from anywhere in a tree to anywhere in another tree! Like jumping from limb to limb is the old Ash tree in my backyard as a kid!
 
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