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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (15105)	12/19/1997 12:50:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Reg, I still got to abstain from any serious dialogue with you, but I can handle this ok. As per my previous message, I understand what's going on just fine. What I'm confused about is there actually being an uninstall thing for IE on the control panel. The Mercury story says there is, and I remember there being one, during a previous episode of Windows going south on me, but I don't see it in my current clean fresh OSR2 installation. As I said, beats me. Not that it's a particularly big deal, I got enough disk that having IE laying around doesn't bother me at all. You want to call me stupid, like Microsoft's calling the judge stupid, it's all cool. Sticks and stones, man. Now that I learned the twin tricks of making c: small and OS only, and storing the whole OS distribution on another partition, I can reformat, reinstall without even having to touch a CD or floppy. Heck, I'm even ready to check out IE4. Now all I got to do is figure out how to burn a disk image on a CD, so I don't have to updated the start menu and desktop, or just figure out the right files to restore.. Cheers, Dan.

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (15105)	12/19/1997 7:51:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

It seems to me that they should be able to completely comply with the judge's ruling by providing a new CD of Win95 with all of the latest stuff, minus IE files, but including any DLL files from IE that might be required by Win 95 or other apps. This might mean that some of the IE code is in the product, but in fact there will be no icon, Start Menu entry, and IE will be, for all intents and purposes disabled. I suspect that such a solution could be relatively straight-forward to implement.