A while back Michael Arrington at Techcrunch posted about 10 companies he’d like to profile. (An interesting list by the way). Which in a roundabout way is similar to what I want, although I’m not going to list 10 pieces of software I’d like to see, I’m just going to talk about one.

“Never Install”
The piece of software I would like to see is something that gives me the option to never install a piece of software. I’ve generally been annoyed when I put a DVD movie into my laptop and rather than the movie starting a software installer pops up instead.

I put in a brand new movie I bought today and the Interactual player installation dialogue came up. The thing is, I don’t want to install the Interactual player. In fact, I never want to install the player.

So what I want is some way of ensuring that if the Interactual player ever tries to run, that my PC will detect it and stop it from running at all. I don’t want it. I’ll never want it. And I never want it to run on my PC.

Sidenote: I’d also like something that lets me select ‘never search the Internet’ when I double-click a file that Windows doesn’t recognise, and I’d like something that lets me ‘never search the Internet’ when I install new hardware. No, I don’t want you to search the Internet, not this time, not every time. I never want you to search the Internet. So stop asking.