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| Guest | Re: Only 3 users in a onecare circle I guess I will throw in with the current sentiment. I am only operating 3 computers at home. I went to Onecare to hopefully reduce the complexity and system load of running a collection of software to defend against spyware and viruses. Most of the other "features" aren't of interest to me. Since the original beta, the feature set has increased but as previously mentioned too often making choices for the user that may not be desirable. This is hardly a new attitude for MS. As a small example, I have only 3 icons on my desktop which is quite large (I use 3 large screens), MS always adds desktop icons with installs and version upgrades... usually add to the quick launch too. It is easy enough to delete them but I appreciate the other software companies that ASK. Soon, my network will be adding my fiancé's computers and the Onecare limit unless resolved will make me look to other solutions. I have FIOS and the is a choice of security packages to choose from. Until now, I didn't realize that additional Onecare licenses weren't available or that Onecare would interfere with interoperation with multiple LiveIDs. Pathetic choices by MS, forcing others to make alternative choices. "Paul Shapiro" <paul@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:#dF54KzZIHA.1204@xxxxxx
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| Guest | Re: Only 3 users in a onecare circle Stephen is an MVP, not a Microsoft employee. An MVP is a special kind of customer, a volunteer. Here is the link for customer feedback. https://feedback.live.com/default.as...tkey=wlonecare Cheers, Earle "Alex McFarlane" <alex@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:56EF2054-C198-4E4A-9664-2E87774F95CB@xxxxxx
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| Guest | Re: Only 3 users in a onecare circle Thanks for the comments, Paul. I do agree that the Printer Sharing functionality provided in v2 can be "in your face" and you need to find out how to disable it on each client PC. As for disabling networking, unless there was another problem (and there were and still are a bunch) with the upgrade, the process should have asked the user to identify the network as "home or work" or "public" and the latter choice locks down the firewall, disabling file and printer sharing and other "safe" LAN options. -steve "Paul Shapiro" <paul@xxxxxx> wrote:
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| Guest | Re: Only 3 users in a onecare circle Note that I don't work for Microsoft. Complaints can be sent "officially" via http://feedback.live.com , but I can assure you that I have been pushing the complaints over to the OneCare team as they come up here and in the forums. -steve "Alex McFarlane" <alex@xxxxxx> wrote:
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| Guest | Re: Only 3 users in a onecare circle Yes it did ask me. I chose home or work and it still locked down the bloody firewall. Why should we pay to use beta software which buggers up our systems without a by your leave? In future don't buy anything ms until they have produced anything higher than v3.7 Regards AMcF "StephenB" <sboots@xxxxxx> wrote in message news 96fq3pkm87mb6l2t6p9l1tg6ao9p6e4k3@xxxxxx
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| Guest | Re: Only 3 users in a onecare circle Thanks Stephen, I understand. The problems with the networking change were: a) Unattended computers automatically went into lockdown mode until someone logged in. Small offices not infrequently use a workstation as a pseudo-server. This change left such an office out of commission. b) Only an administrative logon could make the networking choices. Best practices dictate users are not admins. c) While I appreciate Microsofts effort to protect unaware users from themselves, software aimed at unsophisticated users should not change its behavior during an automatic upgrade. I maintain the systems for my clients, so they were shut out from shared networking until I could take care of it for them. It would have been more appropriate to have the system PROMPT for an upgrade, at which time there would have been an administrative user logged on who could respond to the questions. Or leave the networking as it was until an admin logged in, and then ask. Or tell the non-admin user that they should get an admin to configure the new software. Paul "StephenB" <sboots@xxxxxx> wrote in message news 96fq3pkm87mb6l2t6p9l1tg6ao9p6e4k3@xxxxxx
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| Guest | Re: Only 3 users in a onecare circle Quite. I will certainly not trust ms software until they can get it right. I guess Paul was happy to work for several hours on Sunday for no remuneration to keep his clients happy? Because that's what I had to do, thanks to bloody microsoft. AMcF "Paul Shapiro" <paul@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23ogGfFAaIHA.1960@xxxxxx
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| Guest | Re: Only 3 users in a onecare circle All good points, Paul. Thanks. I am in most agreement with c.) - I hate the way OneCare updates. -steve "Paul Shapiro" <paul@xxxxxx> wrote:
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