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Reply to Why do we have to have this Impulse thing being bundled with Fences in Stardock Support General Stardock Forums

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="57" id="2361206"]Most companies, providers of products or services, have no clue why their customers never come back. People leave and don't come back and then they spread their negative experience around like wildfire all while the csr's at said company sit there completely clueless of the problem. Now, not all problems are meant to be or should be fixed. That's not the issue. Stardock would be blind if they didn't already known this is an issue for some people as

Reply to Why do we have to have this Impulse thing being bundled with Fences in Stardock Support General Stardock Forums

[quote who="Lantec" reply="26" id="2359406"] There has been a lot of legit crticism for forcing that install on people Legit criticism......?? It's a "F R E E" program........NO ONE is forcing you to use it......[/quote] So it being free means all criticism has no value? Kinda defeats the whole concept of beta testing if that's what you actually believe.

Reply to Why do we have to have this Impulse thing being bundled with Fences in Stardock Support General Stardock Forums

Rosco, thanks for the non-defensive proper response to the question I asked, much appreciated (even if I do still disagree with the principle) [quote who="Rosco_P" reply="16" id="2359064"]When you say Impulse should be a choice, you are correct. It's Stardock's choice. If you disagree with that choice, that's fine. You don't have to use our software. We're not even charging for it.[/quote] That is a decision I will make when the current beta expires. W

Reply to Why do we have to have this Impulse thing being bundled with Fences in Stardock Support General Stardock Forums

[quote who="Rosco_P" reply="13" id="2358910"]1) You already have Internet Explorer. It comes with Windows. We're not asking you to use it, just to install it. If you use Firefox for your Internet browsing, the only difference will be that several IE6 security holes will be patched. 2) Fences itself does not require IE7, only Impulse does. Impulse is only required to install, uninstall, and update Fences, not to run it. Impulse does not need to be runni

Reply to Why do we have to have this Impulse thing being bundled with Fences in Stardock Support General Stardock Forums

[quote who="Lantec" reply="2" id="2358250"] Can we not just have a normal standalone installer Such as....? Some software uses Installsheild.....check you computer...I'd just about gaurantee that you have Installsheild on it....why don't they just use a standalone installer?[/quote]But those installers aren't over twice the size of the actual program (Fences - 7Mb, Impulse 18Mb) and the fact is this isn't just an installer but a whole new (unwanted) program that you have no

Why do we have to have this Impulse thing being bundled with Fences in Stardock Support General Stardock Forums

Can we not just have a normal standalone installer (it never did this when I first discovered and installed it a month or so ago). Seems stupid downloading a 7Mb program and being forced to download and install a n additional 18Mb program that I have absolutely no interest in, was given no warning of during install and giving no information of what this drive-by install actually is/does. You could at least provide an option to untick the install of Impulse, along with an explanation of what t