Weather Studio give you 1 click access to temperatures and forecasts, customized to your local area. A new feature also allows it to be integrated into your desktop.
Editorial Review
The WeatherStudio Toolbar is available for download for the Internet Explorer browser and allows it’s users to view up-to-the-minute weather for their chosen City, State, and Country. However, that’s just about the extent of the WeatherStudio toolbar’s positive aspects.
The WeatherStudio Toolbar is easy to install. Simply click the download link and it will install itself so that it will come up automatically in your IE browser the next time you restart it. However, WeatherStudio also wants to become your homepage, among many other things, and install its desktop software right onto your computer. Though WeatherStudio is kind enough to tell you that it is installing this software, it doesn’t actually put it on your computer’s desktop so that you can actually remember that it is installed.
Setting up the WeatherStudio toolbar is simple enough. Simply click the “down arrow” next to the Weather button on the toolbar to set your location, select from whether you want Fahrenheit or Celsius displayed, and if you want to refresh the stats. Actually clicking the weather button will bring your browser to a new screen that gives you a more detailed report, including a 5 day forecast, an hourly summary, and lots and lots of ads.
As a matter of fact, other than the weather, it seems as if WeatherStudio serves up nothing more than an entire slew of advertising.
Almost all of the remaining buttons on the WeatherStudio toolbar all consist of some kind of advertising or another. There is a button that sends the user straight to get their “Free Credit Score” and another that will send the user straight to “Ringtones” and yet another for “Dating.” All are, no doubt, paid sponsors of the WeatherStudio toolbar.
Other functions include a web search window that displays its mediocre search results, ads included. There is also a “reference” function that displays its results that are nothing short of terrible in an annoying sidebar.
Other than these so-called “features” and the weather report, there really is nothing else to the WeatherStudio toolbar. That is, until you attempt to uninstall it and it’s associated software. First, WeatherStudio argues with you for a while, telling you that you will miss out on all of its great “features” and then after you actually convince it that you want it gone, it leaves small traces of itself deep in your hard drive for manual removal.
If you are looking for the weather on a toolbar, there are dozens of other offerings that will give you many more features and much less advertising. Pass over the WeatherStudio toolbar by any means necessary. Knowing the temperature outside just isn’t worth this hassle.
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