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To: Charles Hughes who wrote (15626)	12/27/1997 3:15:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Nah, you don't get it Chaz. According to Sal, the secret API's are "published", because Microsoft uses them. The fact that nobody else can use them is irrelevant, I guess. Secret is maybe another word that has a differnet meaning in Microsoftese. Disclaimer: I don't really know the story, I'm the guy who has IE3 but it doesn't show up on the install/uninstall panel. It's just not fair! Cheers, Dan

To: Charles Hughes who wrote (15626)	12/30/1997 7:51:00 PM
From: Greg Jung	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Chaz, I've looked on a few of the msft SI groups and this appears to be the conversation closest to the point I'd make, so correct me if it is in error or inadequate: Offering a broken-only "uninstalled IE4" system is a blatant defiance of a simple request, there is no complication whatsoever in the "decoupling" except as the age-old shared .DLL problem. IE4 uses .dll's to accomplish in functionality. .DLL's which will likely be useful elsewhere. .dll's which are kept in the system-wide universally used - every tom, dick, and harry can write here, directory. An "uninstall" program for any application has to account for the fact that the files it "added" may have already been in this directory and it need not (and should not) remove them to de-install itself. Windows for years has this problem. So the reason the OS breaks is IE4 uninstall says, "I'm taking my ball and bat and gloves and go home", thus deleting e.g. the file A6gyt89.dll which include the function (hypothetical) "move_block(from, to, count)" which the Excel writers have found to be convenient (and a useful way to prevent Excel '99 from working under Windows '95). That is the extent of the "mind-boggling inextricable link" of IE4 to the "OS", is it not? Or is there another technical explanation of the linkage that is more forgiving to msft? Greg