Every time I restart my Windows computer and then restart Internet Explorer, it decides to re-add all the standard links I deleted: Customize Links, Free Hotmail, Windows Media, Windows.
The only possible explanation is that the computer has realized that removing these links pleases me, so it wants to give me the opportunity over and over again. (More likely it isn’t saving settings when I exit — but somehow it manages to keep bookmarks I actually add.)
If they want to put these links in the first time, fine. But once I’ve deleted them, they should stay gone.
Even worse: webpages that try to change your default home page. My home page is either www.obtainium.org or my.yahoo.com. Do not try to change this. Don’t even ask.
Basically: don’t do intrusive things I didn’t ask for. And especially don’t do it more than once.