• Create a Restore Point

    Posted on July 7, 2014 at 13:15 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Just got this interesting note from fellow Windows victim, MS:

    I tried getting a screen shot of hidden notifications (in the notification area of the taskbar) with the Windows Snipping Tool. No surprise to you, I couldn’t do it. The notifications kept disappearing.

    Then I remembered PicPick and installed it.

    Dum de dum dum… (I don’t mean Dumb. I mean like in Dragnet.)

    So what happens? I suddenly see a new kid on the block in my taskbar–Search Protect, from Client Connect LTD.

    I googled it and saw it’s the program that came to dinner.

    I checked Windows Uninstall Programs and saw it brought along a friend: Yawtix.

    So I fired up Revo Uninstaller and got rid of Search Protect. Oddly enough, Revo couldn’t find Yawtix to exterminate it. So I did the dirty job from Windows.

    Now here’s where it gets weird….

    I tried running PicPick and it wasn’t there. The program was nowhere to be found! The only place it existed was in Win Uninstall. So, what could I do? I killed the ghost of PicPick past.

    My new routine when installing this stuff? Set up a Create Restore Point first.

    Then pray.

    I’ll be covering PicPick in a slideshow coming up shortly on InfoWorld. It works great — but I wonder if MS picked up something during the installer shennanigans? (Many of the latest free Windows desktop apps come bundled inside third-party installers that stick all sorts of crap on Windows machines.) Or maybe it’s a coincidence??? 

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