Basic set-up of new, clean Vista Home install....

[mikeyhsd]

since you are so unhappy with vista and refuse to earn to adapt to it.
why not just bit the bullet and go back to XP.



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I don't suppose there's a chance in hell of treating VISTA as a single user
PC and shutting off UAC is there ????

This question still stands.

I'm loading another copy of XP Pro into another new machine this evening...
I'll check that drive size, thanks.

You're correct.

Shadow copies..... How can I find and disable this ?????

THis question still stands.

I'm turning off *everything* that is automatic, as I always have on every
machine.

I'm having success (thus far) turning off a huge numbers of "Scheduled Tasks"

Speaking of which... apparently I haven't been keeping up with "Task
Scheduler", which I can shut off in everything up through XP, and in
XP I've avoided allowing it to do anything but monitor.

What's the skinny here in VISTA? It looks like it's got crap that doesn't
apply to me running all of the time... including building logs of everything
I am now doing (and apparently will ever do), and scheduling them to be
sent to MS once any connection is made.

By "what's the skinny" I mean, I see that "Task Scheduler" has attempted
80 tasks within the past 24 hours. 46 of them have succeeded, 31 of them
have been stopped (I suppose by shut-downs), and three are currently
running. All three of those could be shut down as they aren't applicable
and revealed no consequences (multiple monitors, system sound service,

This should be interesting... I guess I have about 26 days left to screw
it up.

What is a "Crawl Type Start Address" ?

This question still stands

AAMOF, where can I find a list of these scheduled tasks and what they
are... or am I just going to have to browse every single one of them?


Thanks.... I may try that, as there's no way of knowing whether the task
of defragging was completed or if only the disc analysis was completed.

I still can't tell whether or not the machine is actually defragged.... because
the result remains, "You do not need to defrag at this time".

Recommend 3rd party de-frag tool?

Still no luck....

I am still denied access to the re-cycle bin. I am Administrator / single user.

Any help ??

 

[David Morgan \(MAMS\)]

since you are so unhappy with vista

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Hey smart ass,

I want to understand why it's so important for VISTA to have dozens of
background processes that can phone home regarding everything I've
done to the software. I want to know why it refuses to allow the owner
to operate the computer as a single-user PC. I want to know why it
thinks it has the right to duplicate my files and fill my hard drive with
random bullshit. I want to know why it's not simply a quiet platform
for operating software. I want to understand why it thinks that it can
better schedule multitudes of background tasks to run at better times
than I can. I'm wondering why it believes that interfacing with the Net
is more important than serving the buyers needs. And this list can go
on and on and on and on and on.

The only time I will become "unhappy", is when I discover that the OS
can not be tweaked to shut up and run software. The rest is just a
challenge... like looking at your html posts over the months.

and refuse to earn to adapt to it.

____________________________

I don't like adapting to keystroke loggers... and entire operating systems
that are potentially, essentially nothing more than a form of globally
encompassing PC spyware.

why not just bit the bullet and go back to XP.

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I probably have (and definitely support) more computers than you have brain cells.

But thanks anyway for the charming advice.... you're welcome to take a stab
at some of the thus far, unanswerable questions.