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"Installs Babylon without user consent"
Version: Windows Essentials Media Codec Pack 4.0
Pros
Used to be good but there are much better alternatives.
Cons
Installs Babylon without user consent, saved by Winpatrol of further trouble. Will have to make a clean install of Firefox to get rid of the trash left behind.
Uninstaller does not work properlly - more time lost.Summary
Do not install.
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"Vicious ad-ware"
Version: Windows Essentials Media Codec Pack 4.0
Pros
It installed codecs... sort of...
Cons
The installer for this is evil, and installs ad-ware with a modal frame that disables the ability to quit the installer after a certain point.
Summary
I recently did a clean install of my windows partition. Looking to simplify my codec installation process and after see the positive review on this by Cnet, I thought this would be a decent package. Wrong! When I started up the codec installer it opened a windowless install dialog unlike the one in the reference image on this page. The first thing it prompted me was if I wanted to install the ask toolbar and make it my home page. I clicked the custom option, disabled these and clicked next. This is where things went horribly wrong. The next screen had a check-box for installing an ad-ware package. I unchecked it, but this disabled the next button. I realized this ad-ware was required to installed this package, but there was no cancel button. There was a thing that looked like a cancel x that was ghosted out, and didn't quit when I click on it. I then pulled up the task-manager and clicked force quit. The force quite button popped up but then disappeared behind the frameless installer dialog. I then thought perhaps the check-box might need to be enabled to access the cancel x in the dialog so I attempted to check it again. Nothing happened, the installer looked to have frozen, but I attempted to click the x a few more times, then as I was going to try and kill the process, the check-box suddenly checked it self, and it installed with out me clicking the next button. I was floored that they had some how registered my clicks on the x button as an install. I'm going to attempt to disable this, but am afraid the ad-ware is already installed, and if one thing experience as taught me is installers like this don't remove the ad-ware they install. I give this a 0 stars as it is the lowest form f scum-ware.
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"best codec pack to date"
Version: Windows Essentials Media Codec Pack 4.0
Pros
been using this pack for years, so far so good
Cons
nothing that i can think of
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