On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:50:14 -0500, Spehro Pefhany
wrote:

On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:01:26 -0700, the renowned Spurious Response
wrote:

On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:15:50 -0500, Spehro Pefhany
wrote:

On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:00:28 -0400, the renowned PeteS
wrote:

Found this in my aimless surfing.

Amusing, and yet another reason to avoid Vista like the plague

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Forge...ft-58752.shtml

Cheers

PeteS

It doesn't mention the indexing program (which goes through your
entire HDD). It attempts to contact Microsoft for who knows what
purpose.. And they've screwed around with Explorer search so you
practically need to use it.



All indexing functions are very easy to turn off, and mine didn't try to
contact Microsoft.

How do you know it didn't?

I am aware of these things.

Their "firewall" does not stop any outgoing
communications, by default,

I do not use "their firewall"... at all...

and they make it very difficult to set up
otherwise.

Bull****. Every decent router has a hardware firewall, that comes
AFTER windows, but BEFORE the cable modem, and Windows doesn't nor can it
do anything about downstream controls. In fact, it is my DHCP server in
some instances.

And since they crippled the search function in Explorer...

I do not use exploder. I use Mozilla and google, etc.



Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany