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Termyn8or -> RE: Hmm, computer question (6/3/2010 2:02:13 AM)
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You are never going to stop this shit. The closest you can come is thus.
Obtain a copy and product key for XP Pro corporate, licensed for like 400 computers. This can be installed or cloned on a network so you should have no micrhard problems.
When you install it tell it to always prompt before installing any updates, and never even download Windows Advantage, EVER. It comes with SP2 so you might wind up with a prompt on every boot, and one time hitting "enter" might killl your PC unless you are very sure your copy of windows is legal. It's usually better to just not take the chance.
Never get anything from McAffe's or Norton's, all scams. Get AVG. You put up with a Yahoo tool bar. Never let it update mediaplayer, especially to version ten if you have anything but store boughten music. Get VLC instead for those files that won't play. You just can't put them in a playlist, don't cry to me, it's free anyway.
Put XP into classic mode, and choose black for all modes of the right side of the title bar of all windows. This will allow you to immediately see the difference between an actual window and a popup designed to look like a window. Put the taskbar on autohide AND always on top. This gives you several advantages when certain program go fullscreen and you are in doubt how the hell to get out.
And always drag your feet about updates, if the thing is working do nothing, just say no. It will threaten you, like youtube will tell you that they are phasing out support for your IE6. Let me tell you IE 6 is fifty times better than the newer versions if you want to keep tabs on what goes on with your PC. Keep bombarding youtube with IE 6 and let's see how fast that browser support is discontinued.They've been threatening that for near a year now, fukum, they are just blowing smoke.
And for media, get an older P2P, like Bearshare 5.2.5 Lite. When the Windows error comes up don't click send or don't send error report to microhard, just move the window out of the way. It actually seems to run better and faster when it says "must close". Bullshit, that is when I start getting 3 megs a second, and remeber this is P2P, so that is alot sometimes. It depends who's on.
And last but far from least, don't let other people on your PC. This can be hard to do, but if you do let someone use it, LITERALLY look over their shoulder and when a window pops up with yes or no, just say no. If they do not comply you shoot them.
Now even with all this, the other day this PC started translating all links into Spanish in a yellow popup window. This one here, nobody else touches at all. So how did this happen ? The answer is : Who the hell knows ?
Really, IMO this shit has really gotten out of hand.
T
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