While I disagree with your assumptions it is pretty easy to turn off most of
the security and automatic updates if you think you need to.
--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca
"theatretours" <theatretours@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0E21F5DF-85AF-47FB-A5A4-32BF7653AFC3@microsoft.com...
> It seems to me that Vista is dedicated to security and updates. Everything
> is
> secure and recent.
> The problem is that Vista's priority is to be secure an up to date, as
> opposed to what I need it to do.
> This system is intended to be a tool and while self updating and automatic
> security is great, it needs to be much lower priority for the developers
> and
> the system. If I can't run everything I need at the speed I need it,
> there's
> something wrong. Has anyone else observed this?