We didn't upgrade to WinXP until relatively recently cos of all the AnnoyingThings(tm). It's taken us a long time to learn how to turn all the shit off.
When my mum's new (grrr envy) laptop arrived last week it took me about 3 hours to kill all the bouncing, annoying, attention grabbing crap off the system entirely. The first thing to go was anything by Norton (die die die) followed by all of the Windows 'security' features. My mum has enough problem with the desktop/things staying still without windows/N popup feature death.
I almost never use Windows now. Only thing I use it for is updating my new to me Palm IIIc because the linux client keeps crashing and doesn't seem to work. I could probably do that in VMware if I thought about it...
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Date: 2006-10-21 08:23 pm (UTC)When my mum's new (grrr envy) laptop arrived last week it took me about 3 hours to kill all the bouncing, annoying, attention grabbing crap off the system entirely. The first thing to go was anything by Norton (die die die) followed by all of the Windows 'security' features. My mum has enough problem with the desktop/things staying still without windows/N popup feature death.
I almost never use Windows now. Only thing I use it for is updating my new to me Palm IIIc because the linux client keeps crashing and doesn't seem to work. I could probably do that in VMware if I thought about it...