EULA=End User License Agreement, now on with the story.

Dear Dell

Thank you very much for pre-installing the Google Toolbar on these nice Dell Optiplex GX745 Computers.

I have one comment.

The Google Toolbar EULA that appears automatically when the PC first boots up and gets to the windows desktop for the first time looks like its been designed for a screen running at 1024×768 pixels wide.

This is what you see (click for a larger version)

For your information the default screen resolution of these computers the very first time they reach the windows desktop is 800×600 pixels wide.

Now considering the EULA has no Close option (like every windows application should do) how does one actually close it?

Do you see my problem, its occupying more than 100% of the screen and I can’t close it.

Naturally I figured out what I needed to do.

1) Drag it out of the way.
2) Disable it at start up by using msconfig.

I suspect this fails because you or Google (let’s share the love) have assumed the PC is connected to the internet and the missing I AGREE box cannot be accessed from the net or something.

Whatever the reason, its not a good “out of the box” experience.

If it helps these machines shipped in early Feb, but doing a quick google search I see other people with the same problem.

This is a short windows vista screencast (2m30s) I demonstrate some cool things you can do with the Windows Presentation Foundation on the web.

WPF for short is an pre-installed feature of Windows Vista but can also be also be installed in Windows XP.

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Tomorrow I will do a quick demo of the WPF version of the New York Times.

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Thanks Colin