Ok, So i'm not one who is prone to 'hissy fits' but I am at the point of
moving to Linux and Star Office just to stop M$ from fixing something that
aint broke.

So the problem, I used to be able to search the body of an email by just
selecting the search, advanced and entering the information into the relevant
box. Of it went an i could work happily whilst it did its thing in the
background.

I then stupidly upgraded to office 2007 and I would say my productivity has
reduced by at least 25 - 30%.

Today I wanted to search for an email with a specific peice of information
in the body. Outlook reported i needed instant messaging installing. Against
my better judgement i installed it and after 5 hours i still dont have the
mail, my machine is running like a pig and I havent been able to complete my
report on time... this is &^%$.

SO can some please explain to me how i remove this peice of crap from my
machine. i will do the search manually, its gotta be faster than this.

Please excuse my frustration but these things are supposed to help us do our
job, not turn us into specialists in how the damn things work.

I have tried add/remove programs and there is nothing there. I cannt right
click the search window in the panel at the bottom and i need to remove is so
i can get back to work.

rgds Paul