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Bloody Universal Plug and Play
mobrien_12:
MS made up this so called "Universal Plug and Play." The instant I read about it, I knew it was a bad idea. Network devices shouldn't be searched and automatically configued.
MS made it up. They enabled it by default on their operating systems... you know the story.. we are MS, we have a desktop monopoly, we will bundle something with the OS and force it on customers and then all the businesses will pick it up.
It was a known security risk.
It was known to cause problems.
My work computer runs XP pro (I don't have a choice, it's the company computer, they own it, company policy says I don't put any other OS on it). For months after I put on SP2 (again, I didn't have a choice), the damned thing would just slow to a freaking crawl for no reason, because the WINLOGON.EXE program would go haywire, and the only thing I could do was reboot it. GRR.
I made sure I had no malware. Finally I find out that this happens sometimes when you have UPnP enabled, and SP2 re-enables it by default. WTF.
worker201:
Probably doesn't have anything at all to do with it, but I found out today that you must have cookies enabled to download a piece of clipart from the Microsoft Office page. I mean, can't even get to the page where you download stuff unless they are satisfied with your cookie handling. Why is that? I thought that was a little excessive, and had no real purpose but to keep tabs on a user. And not to improve their surfing experience either.
Really, I can't understand why people would use Windows as their OS of choice.
Refalm:
I use this at work:
XP-antispy
Disabling stupid bullshit like UnPnP is just one click away.
Aloone_Jonez:
There are two Windows plug and play services, one can be disabled without any problems but the other fucks your system up if it's disabled.
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Really, I can't understand why people would use Windows as their OS of choice.
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Duh, software & hardware compatability and because it's what they're used to.
piratePenguin:
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Duh, software & hardware compatability and because it's what they're used to.
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And because they don't know anything else exists. Windows was my OS of "choice" before I learned of the existance of GNU/Linux.
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