Darren New wrote:
>> There is only *one* update site, 
> 
> And you'd rather have lots of update sites? I'm not sure why you think 
> this is a bad thing.
> 
You where implying that I was looking at the "wrong" one. I was a bit 
confused what one you thought I would be looking at...

>> and the only thing ever "added" are new versions of the "malicious 
>> software removal drone", 
> 
> Then I guess your stuff is pretty stable. I get all kinds of updates for 
> both Windows and Office.
> 
Ah, well. I don't use Office, so... Not a surprise there isn't a lot of 
that coming down the pipe. lol

>> whose sole purpose seems to be to send my machine into frozen limbo 
>> for several minutes, while it hunts hundreds of gigs of files for 
>> "dangerous" stuff, which it never actually finds. 
> 
> I try not to be hard at work while installing updates to the operating 
> system, myself.   Sounds like you don't have enough memory to me, 
> because that runs in about 90 seconds once a month on my machines.
> 
Uh.. I have... 2GB, and I am usually not running anything but Firefox 
while this is going on, so unless Firefox is eating up more than half of 
the memory... I just don't get it. It can take several minutes on mine, 
though, it "did" run faster before I tacked on an external drive. Hmm. 
Come to think of it, its probably hunting in the gigs of "backups" on 
that drive that get patched every few days too, which would mean its 
searching "two" copies of all the same data (well, mostly, since 
OneTouch's backup is lame enough to only backup the stuff "it" wants, 
not what you want. Need to find something to replace that with, one of 
these days... They ever get Windows Backup to do compressed incremental 
backups, or it still assuming you have an external removable that is at 
least as big as the "entire" data space you are backing up, like they 
did before? I haven't bothered to check, since it was nearly useless 
back when all I had to backup to was CDs, and it wouldn't do CDs. lol)

-- 
void main () {
   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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