
Actually in SP2...
They now want you to turn on ALL Auto updates and Firewall by default.
I bought a new machine for my Step-mum (she didn't want to wait for me to build one)
I literally had to yank out a swath of Registry just to get the bloody thing to shutup.
She doesn't use the Internet, has no e-mail, not even AOL on dialup. Nor an local ISP for dial-up.
She uses good old fashioned snail-mail and the Telephone.
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