Author: Stuzzi Kadent
Date: 00:58:39 09/14/02
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On September 13, 2002 at 11:27:43, Christophe Theron wrote: >I did not install Windows XP in my Toshiba. It was preinstalled. > >I tried to ask the Toshiba store to sell me the computer without XP. They >refused to to do it. There is even a sticker on the computer with the Windows >serial number of it, and you can't remove it. > >Now if I uninstall XP from the Tosh, guess what? They consider I VOID the >warranty. They won't provide any support for me if I'm not using Windows XP. > >For example if I find out that the power management does not work, they will >simply ignore my complain if I'm using Windows ME or Linux. > >They will consider my problem ONLY if I can show them the defect when running >Windows XP. > >I'm not supposed to use anything else than this crap on MY computer. > >Try to buy a computer without some version of Windows installed on it. It's >nearly impossible where I live, short of assembling the PC myself. > >In the case of notebooks, it's simply impossible. They are all shipped with XP, >and got their XP stickers in the ass. > > > > >>>It performs various tasks without your knowledge (generally using a LAN or >>>Internet connection). >> >>Just like a spouse on a shopping trip :) >> >>>Its goal is to spread as much as possible. >> >>Peanut butter? >> >>>It is difficult to get rid of it. >> >>Why get rid of something you installed yourself? > > > >You are getting dense, Peter. > >1) I did not install it. >2) I do not want it but was not allowed to buy the machine without it. >3) I CANNOT remove it. > > > > > >>>It is difficult to know what it does exactly. >> >>Your the one at the controls... > > > >Good joke. > >The bloody stuff insists everytime I launch it to download things from the >Internet. Sometimes it starts downloading without asking. I have to click as >fast as possible on the Cancel button to stop the download. > >I DON'T WANT UPDATES TO BE INSTALLED AUTOMATICALLY. > >Most updates from Microsoft are likely to BREAK something on my computer. I have >spent the last 20 years dealing with M$ software bugs, I know what I'm talking >about. > >Now what I want is to be productive and stop spending most of my time on the >computer fixing the OS. > >I prefer to use buggy, slightly outdated software. Because once I have found a >way to workaround the bugs, I'm productive. If that crappy OS downloads updates >every day, I'm going to be faced with new problems daily. > >I don't care if it is possible to disable this behaviour somewhere. > >What matters is that 99% of the users are not able to find this setting. So 99% >of the users of that VIRUS are going to download and execute loads of programs >without their consent, and most of the time without even knowing it. > >That's exactly the definition of a virus. It's going to install and execute >without you knowing it. > > > > >>>Eventually it crashes your computer, leaving you in trouble. >> >>90% of Windows crashes are user related, or software conflicts between versions >>of programs that YOU install. > > > >That's not true and you know it. > >The OS is inherently lousy. > >An buggy application can corrupt the OS and crash every other running >application. > >Because of this, Windows hardly deserves to be called an "OS". > >My computer, when running Windows, crashes 10 times a day. Sometimes, just >closing an Internet connection crashes the system. > >I have *NEVER* seen this under Linux. > >But if all you know is Windows, sure you like it. Don't ever try anything else, >it would be a big shock for you... > > > > > Christophe You definitely have problems that are not mandatory or normal to users with Windows XP. Since you are Toshiba will support your computer with Windows XP on it and they built it, they should be solving these problems for you. Perhaps you had better describe to them carefully what the nature of your "crashes" are. If you have so much experience with computers why would you put up with this. By the way, automatic updating is not the only contact windows XP has with microsoft. It contacts them when you use the help system, it will contact them when you use media player. It probably contacts them in other instances also. Not all of these contacts are obvious or welcome to the user.
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