Craig Mayhew's Blog » Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant http://www.craigmayhew.com/blog Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:51:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant 1.0 http://www.craigmayhew.com/blog/2009/06/microsoft-net-framework-assistant-10/ http://www.craigmayhew.com/blog/2009/06/microsoft-net-framework-assistant-10/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:35:15 +0000 Craig Mayhew http://www.craigmayhew.com/blog/?p=109 Microsoft took a step to far recently when they installed an add-on into Firefox in a recent Windows update “Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1“. As you can see in the following image I have disabled but not been able to uninstall the add-on.

Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant 1.0 in Firefox Add-on Manager

The reason it can’t be removed is that Microsoft installed the add-on for all users but the Firefox GUI can only handle uninstalling add-ons for the current user. Microsoft have released a further update that installs the addon on a per user basis rather than for all users which enables you to uninstall it via the previously inactive uninstall button in the Firefox GUI. The download can be found here.

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