As to what MS gets off your computer and how much varies from person to person. The extremely paranoid will side on the too much slant with anything and everything being grabbed, while the more optimistic may side with little more than licenses of MS products contained in the registry.
I tend to go with the more optimistic view myself, though bear in mind the reputation of M$ in the courts and their respective business model of monopolizing everything.
Peter Kaulback
-- One OS to rule them all, one OS to find them, One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them, In the land of Redmond, where the shadows lie.
In the hour of 09:50 AM 4/9/2004, BubblyBabs spoke this:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Support-OrpheusComputing.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 7:11 AM Subject: Re: PCWorks: Counsel for the Console (was David's Dying Dialup)
> Like I said, or alluded to, you can't do it in Windows! How > can you format in Windows, which of course would WIPE Windows? > Sounds like you're trying to format a drive while IN Windows, > because any other way, it doesn't care what you have on the HD. > It will just ask if you are sure you want to overwrite the OS.
What if he formatted from a floppy with Win98's format program? Can he format that way to start from scratch and then use his WinXP
CD to format and install? I don't know if you can do that with WinXP and an NTFS drive, just asking... Dave, do you have a WinXP
CD or one of those OEM CD's that is supposed to bring your system back to the way it was when you first bought it?
> As a habit you should check the Windows Update site on a > regular basis, but DO NOT INSTALL WHAT IT TELLS YOU TO INSTALL!
Ooooweee, I'm in trouble because I have every update they've recommended (other than that one that I had to reinstall when my system
slowed to a crawl - and I didn't even have Norton!)...
What kind of info does MS get off your computer?
Babs
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