I really hate Google sometimes. Yes, they are a good search engine… they are they best, if that makes you feel better… you google freak. I don’t want to deny that. Recently… well 2 weeks ago, I downloaded and install one of their ‘good tools’, PICASA into my notebook. Picasa is for you to manage your photos and do some editing. It also can manage your Picasa online album at Google.

Last week, I tried to open an email attachment in my Outlook. I can’t! Well, I was having this problem on my PC for sometimes already but I did not bother about it since my pc is just waiting to be reformatted… it has many whistle here and there already… and further more I have the notebook.  The weird thing is, I can open other attachment like pdf or text file but not an email attached to an email!

I search for solution… with Google of course if that makes you happy, you Google freak… and found a registry fix… even Microsoft said fix the registry… so I add a new string value in my registry at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook\Security\Level1Remove with .msg and .eml

Tried it both on the PC and notebook… but still no good. Search and search again for solution… one said, remove your Google Desktop. But as far as I remember, I never install Google Desktop on my notebook.. only Picasa.

I gave up… until a few days later, I open my control panel to see what inside my Add Remove Programs… guess what I found? Google Desktop! Dammit… where the hack that came from? It must have come together with the Picasa… immediately uninstall the bloody Googel Desktop… the Picasa was not touched. Fire my Outlook, open the attachment… booom… it open!!!

Go to my PC, uninstall the Google Desktop which I installed many months ago… booom… my attachment opened!!!