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Old 09-03-2008   #3 (permalink)
Brian W
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Re: Is Windows really trustworthy?


"David Sherman" <dshermin@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> It is time that Microsoft raise the bar of security and fix the
> problems in house before Windows X is released.
>
> This letter was mail to Steve Riley on 08/25/08
>
> One item not mentioned in the letter by added 08/26/08 is the effect
> that installing Search 4 has on the closing of Internet Explorer 7.
> Since indexing is turned on by default, IE 7 takes about 30 seconds to
> close under Windows XP. By disabling indexing IE 7 closed much faster.
> Under Vista, IE closes in about 30 seconds with Search 4 installed.
Not here, IE closes as soon as I press the red 'X'. I have Search 4
installed.
Quote:

> There is no way to turn off indexing in Vista or if there is I haven't
> found it yet. Nor was it mentioned that under XP, I tried to uninstall
> Search 4 and Windows uninstaller said it wasn't installed. (Why was
> the service running after I rebooted my machine?) Under Vista, why was
> it hard to remove Search 4? When I uninstalled Search 4, I got a
> message that Windows was doing an update, stage 1, 2 of 3 before Vista
> reboots before Vista is updating stage 3 of 3. So what do the "update
> messages mean when Vista is shutting down?
>
> Added 08/29/08
> UAC question: If UAC is enabled on a Vista machine and an user sees 10
> seconds of blank screen before the UAC command is ready to run, how
> much time is wasted with UAC?
10 seconds? I never have to wait.

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