What Happened to Google Earth?

[Mystic]

I can understand competition. In fact, competition is very good and we need competition between companies. But I don't like cutthroat competition where somebody is trying to destroy someone else.

Did you know that Microsoft almost certainly has Apple Macintosh Computers somewhere at Microsoft? Microsoft develops Microsoft Office for the Macintosh. And years ago Microsoft gave Apple something like a $150 million dollar loan (I can't remember the exact amount) to keep Apple alive. I was still a fairly diehard Apple fan at that time and I was totally stunned. They could have let Apple die. But they did not. Some claimed they had selfish motives and just wanted to keep Microsoft Office for the Macintosh alive so they could make more money. Maybe they had more pure motives. I don't know.

If things had been different I wonder how some of these Mac fans and Linux fans would have behaved. Would they have laughed with glee as Microsoft died? At some Linux websites Linux fans have talked about how they are almost ready to drive Unix from the server market. Some people at Linux websites about 5 years ago predicted the death of Microsoft. Somehow their glee seems distasthful to me. Maybe we are all better off with Unix, Linux, Windows, BSD, and Mac servers.

Google and Microsoft have become competitors. Google was my internet serach engine for a long time. Personally I don't care for Google anymore. They are not the Google I knew at first.

 

[ekpolk]

Well it happened again -- went to use Google Earth today, and it's totally gone from my system. I just used it a couple days ago just fine, and now, somehow unknown -- gone.

How does this happen???????????

 

[tmorris1]

My guess is that only the shortcut is disappearing not the whole app. Look in the add/remove programs control panel and see if it still shows up.

 

[ekpolk]

Originally Posted By: tmorris1
My guess is that only the shortcut is disappearing not the whole app. Look in the add/remove programs control panel and see if it still shows up.


Thanks for the feedback. GE does show as a removeable program in the add/remove programs window, but otherwise, it has totally disappeared. I don't keep many shortcuts (icons) on my desktop, and usually start from the start menu or "all programs" list. No sign of GE on either. Why would the program vanish like this (while still showing as "removeable")?

 

[ToyotaNSaturn]

When in doubt, go to www.ninite.com, choose what you want to install, download/run the installer while you get a cup of coffee. Done.

Just be sure to close out of any Firefox, Chrome or any Open Office speed launchers you may have open on your system as it can't install over something that's currently running.

 

[ekpolk]

TNS:

Thank you for the input. I'll check out that site. Sounds interesting.

My basic questions, however, remains -- how do properly installed, fully functional programs simply disappear from a healthy, virus-free Win-7U computer????

 

[ToyotaNSaturn]

Dunno. I've seen the same thing. I just reinstall. I wonder if if Google tries to update something in the background, like they do with Chrome.

 

[greenaccord02]

Like TnS said, I think the google updater is trying to do something, failing, and part of the roll-back after the failure simply removes google earth all together.

 

[TXMXTruck]

Originally Posted By: ekpolk

My basic questions, however, remains -- how do properly installed, fully functional programs simply disappear from a healthy, virus-free Win-7U computer????


Press the start button from the task bar and type "services" in the "search bar". Click on Services, scroll to view Google Software Updater and Google Update Service (gupdate). Make sure both are set to MANUAL. One will be set to Automatic. Select that item, change to manual and then click Apply. That should resolve your problem.