On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:24:58 -0400, Tim Cook wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> And I couldn't get to it.  No way, no how.  So, frustrated, I grabbed a
>> monitor to see what the dumb thing had done.  You know what?  It
>> reverted EVERY SINGLE CHANGE to the user profile I had put in place. 
>> UAC was enabled; Aero was enabled.  VNC wouldn't start; the firewall
>> (which I had disabled) was active.  It was as if I had just completed
>> the "first boot" setup.
> 
> You know what?  MS got sick of users (and third-party programmers) not
> liking being told that certain things (like turning off the firewall)
> are dumb ideas and doing them anyways.  So they said heck with it, and
> now you can't "just turn off" things.  You have to do it correctly.

The problem is that they left the "just turn off" option in there.  And 
it worked.  Once.  I'll grant them that they didn't ask me a million 
times (like they used to) if I was sure that I wanted to do what I was 
doing.

But silently screwing with settings I put in place doesn't make me happy.

> I don't remember where I got this, might've been here, but this entry in
> particular is gold:
> http://shippingseven.blogspot.com/2008/01/big-changes.html
> 
> Aero I played with a little for a few days, then switched to classic
> view.

Same here.  Even on XP, I couldn't get over the "Fisher-Price" look that 
was default on XP.

Jim

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