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Friday, March 10, 2006

Hawk Eye on Live Toolbar First Run Experience

Now that I'm back in the office with an external monitor, I'm able to use my laptop again. While I was waiting for the help desk tech to show up, I installed the new Live Toolbar. I was immediately thrown however, because it comes with basically no default installed features. It was strange to have to install basic features like tabbed browsing and desktop search. On the other hand, it was nice not to have the previously default features that I don't use uninstalled (i.e. popup blocker, form fill, msn extensions). There needs to be a better first-run experience that presents the user a list of options to install (along with the standard ones pre-selected). Otherwise, so far so good.

Posted By Harry Pierson at 12:23 PM Pacific Standard Time
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