It really annoys me when I uninstall a program only to find that its last act of crappiness is to open my web browser and send me to some page to answer questions about why the app is so crappy that I had to uninstall it.

How can I disable this functionality? I'm uninstalling it because it sucks, I don't want it to take over my browser during its death throes!

(WinXP/7)

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Nothing you can do about it. An (un)installer generally runs with Administrator rights, because it needs access to C:\Program Files\. It therefore has freedom to do pretty much what it wants.

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You could unplug or disable your ethernet adapter before running the uninstaller. It will still try to pull up a web page, but it just won't get anywhere.

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