Google Earth thread!

kebecker;54987 wrote:

a large section around Kettering has just been added, just keeps improving!

Just noticed that, its revealed some 'non airfield' stuff I've been wanting to see....lets hope if keeps going North

RAF Podington has also shown itself, apart from the fact its censored

I think if GE vanished from my PC I would dial 999

I've spent about 4 hours on it today....my boss would kill me if he knew

hi all
new additions great on google
now drem poulton sealand hooton park etc
great picture of the crater at metfield bomb dump
regards
andrew

Thanks Gents yes trawling back an update was done on close down last night.
regards TED

I installed GE a while ago and was horrified by the amount of stuff it added to my PC. I actually installed it (along with all applications) to my 'E' partition as I like to keep the 'C' drive as clean as possible. However it added loads of garbage to 'Windows'' and 'Program Files' and 'Documents and Settings'. A few days later I re-cloned the 'C' partition to a previous ''clean' version. Hence Windows and the registry etc know nothing about Google Earth. However GE works perfectly when I create a link to its EXE on the 'E' drive.

Proves yet again that large amounts of installation software are completely unnecessary. This is not the first time this has happened - generally it's only Microsoft stuff that ties itself tightly into the registry and hence insists on a reinstall every time you sneeze or it rains. Most other large apps can work independently.

Conversely my Microsoft .NET FRAMEWORK v3.5 has got itself into a real mess - it won't update, won't uninstall, won't repair. I tried a manual uninstall followed by a purge of the registry (1.5 hours) and still no joy - it hurls error messages at me on reboot. Even tried reverting to an old clone of my 'C' drive with the original 1.1 version and that had exactly the same problems. There are loads of people, including friends, complaining about this unsolvable issue on the web - bottom line - it's made by Microsoft. Nuff said.

End of moan

Graham

Carnaby;55557 wrote:

Conversely my Microsoft .NET FRAMEWORK v3.5 has got itself into a real mess - it won't update, won't uninstall, won't repair. I tried a manual uninstall followed by a purge of the registry (1.5 hours) and still no joy - it hurls error messages at me on reboot. Even tried reverting to an old clone of my 'C' drive with the original 1.1 version and that had exactly the same problems. There are loads of people, including friends, complaining about this unsolvable issue on the web - bottom line - it's made by Microsoft. Nuff said.Graham

Have you tried booting into safe mode and then uninstalling?

T

Carnaby;55557 wrote:

it added loads of garbage to 'Windows'' and 'Program Files' and 'Documents and Settings'. Graham

And one of the main reasons I dont use GE. Although when I read about all of these overlays and things you can get for GE I feel sort of left out.
But bloatware being bloatware, I shall stick with 'Flashearth' for my meagre needs!

TommyUSA;55561 wrote:

Have you tried booting into safe mode and then uninstalling?T

Yes unfortunately. Symptoms are:
1) Perform 'Live Update'. It does then reports 'Update Failed owing to a problem XXXX' (XXX is well documented with plenty of Microsoft stupid suggestions and no known reliable solution). I also noticed that the file Datastore.edb which MS reckon contains detail of your updates and has gradually increased over the years suddenly jumped at this point from around 8 meg to 65 meg!!! Why?
2) Try to Repair it. It reports 'Unable to Repair - you need to reinstall'
3) Try to Install latest version (or any version!) It reports 'You must uninstall first'
4) Try to uninstall - Immediate reply 'Cannot uninstall'

If I had ever produced software like this I would willingly resign before I was sacked.

Had a serious problem trying to update Office 2000 to Office 2003 a while ago. Microsoft is aware of this when running XP and their site recommended uninstalling 2000 first, followed by the gem 'Do not uninstall Office 2000 by the normal adopted method as it doesn't actually uninstall the product!' Instead they recommended downloading their 'Office Uninstaller'

I did just that and ran it. It immediately reported 'This product does not work with Windows XP or above'.

Totally lost for words .

Graham