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Unknown Program in Add/Delete Programs Listing

Dec 15, 2003 11:08PM PST

Out of nowhere I have had a new program show up in my add/delete programs listing: "Lernout & Hauspie TruVoice for Microsoft Agent"... Is this a necessary program ? I have ran Spybot, Hijackthis, CWshredder and my virus scan but none detected it. Need info about whether it can be safely deleted...Thanks in advance

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Re:Unknown Program in Add/Delete Programs Listing
Dec 15, 2003 11:20PM PST

This program normally is the default installation for other programs such as 'voice to text' types...where you talk into a microphone and it will 'type' your words for you. If you have a program of this kind installed recently, you will need this extra one installed in order to make it work, and it appears that it installed itself for you.

TONI

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Re:Unknown Program in Add/Delete Programs Listing
Dec 16, 2003 6:45AM PST

I may be installed by Microsoft Office or Microsoft Plus XP.

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Re:Re:Unknown Program in Add/Delete Programs Listing
Dec 16, 2003 7:27AM PST

Toni & Cartmanken, thanks for the rapid response but I am running W98SE, IE6.0 and both have all the updates offered at M/S except for the networking and visual (5+ Mb?). I have not noticed any impacts except for ocassional freezing for which Win98 is noted. Will keep my attention on it to see in the future.

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Re:Re:Re:Unknown Program in Add/Delete Programs Listing
Dec 16, 2003 7:51AM PST

May be no help here, but when I had WIN98SE the program you speak of was listed in add\remove programs.
And, like you, I was not sure when it first appeared.
But I just left it alone. Figure M$ put it there for some reason, and can sometimes get into trouble trying to second guess them.
Kind of like the xerox, and microsoft front page folders in WINXP Happy