Dave,

          I wasn't clear on what you were saying.  I thought you thought it 
unusual that it had been on the machine for several months with no activity 
logged with no mention of whether you'd been installing other software since 
installing it.

          You have either lucked out with what you have installed or the crafty 
devils who are bundling stuff have come up with a phrasing for their checkbox 
descriptions that Unchecky isn't catching.  I believe the whole basis of 
Unchecky is that it detects the presence of checkboxes and then analyzes what 
is said next to them.  If a checkbox is something that's considered legitimate, 
and those do exist, then Unchecky remains silent.

          One thing that annoys me about Unchecky is that it doesn't give you 
any hint about precisely what it's found when it asks you to reject same.  The 
other day I installed an update of PDF Creator that had PDF Architect bundled 
with it, and I never use PDF Architect.  Unchecky barked at me twice.  The 
first time I rejected because I could see what was under the dialog box and I 
wanted to reject that but then another dialog came up immediately.  I though it 
might be a program error, but it must have been for the PDF Architect addition, 
but there is no hint as to what the unchecking is about.  Still, I'm far more 
likely to allow Unchecky to reject anything it finds than I would be to accept 
those checkboxes.  If you somehow skip something important you can always rerun 
a setup.  Getting rid of stuff is far more tedious.

Brian

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