On 05/06/2011 11:06 PM, clipka wrote:

> Official procedure though is to go to the control panel, "Java" settings
> dialog, "Advanced" tab, "Miscellaneous", deselect "Java Quick Starter",
> and restart the system.
>
> While this seems to be intended simply as an alternative way to both end
> the process and set the service's start mode to disabled, on my system
> it plainly doesn't. Checkbox toggles, but that's all it does. Next time
> firing up the "Java" control panel, checkbox is back again.

I had something similar with MSN Messenger yesterday. I opened up the 
settings pane and unchecked "run at startup". Reboot, and it still runs 
at startup. Unselected the checkbox again, and this time it appears to 
have taken effect. GO FIGURE.

I prefer the old days of the Amiga, where software almost always did 
what it was supposed to. (Or else failed to work completely.) None of 
this "sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't" nonsense. (Or "if works 
if you press the buttons in this order, but no other order".)

This kind of thing seems to be endemic to Windows (and now Linux). For 
example, when I was setting up our old file server, I discovered that 
the only way to make the tape drive work was some long, complex routine 
(which I eventually wrote down) where you uninstall and reinstall the 
hardware drivers multiple times, rebooting in between, in just the exact 
right sequence, and then it works perfectly. If you don't do this, the 
device just refuses to function. WTF?

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