After years of running a home network with mostly W98, I got a new P4 Dell w/ XP Pro. The biggest thing to adjust to is that this thing phones home for EVERYTHING! Media Player is now basically spyware; half the MS Apps call home when started. I responded by putting a cheap firewall on each machine to make them ask permission first; MS seems intent on turning me into a rental tenant rather than a software purchaser.
Perhaps the most irritating of these is that when an app locks up -- as often as not over being denied the right to call home -- and you try to cancel it with Task Manager, you get a Report/Don't Report Error dialog box, but it won't accept the Don't Report choice, so you're as good as bluescreened if you don't unlock the firewall and let it call, restarting is the only other option, or maybe I missed something.
Is mine an unusual experience? Is there a way to switch off the Auto Error Report and just dump the task?
PW
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by: jman1980Posted on 2003-03-03 at 12:37:41ID: 8059830
right click on my computer, select properties, automatic updates tab and uncheck. as far as other updates, you can configure all of the ms stuff to phone home or not.