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Sounds like a bad install or bad drivers. I’ve had multiple XP machines running since the OS came out and never gone through a freeze, crash restart.

If you don’t want to be computer savvy then you shouldn’t buy one. If you got in your car turned off the airbag and didn’t put on the seatbelt would you blame the manufacturer when “one misstep” put your head through the windshield. There are smart ways and not smart ways to use ANY tool. Nobody is suggesting you need to know the inner workings, but you should at least read the message that comes up immediately after an install that tells you running as admin is dangerous and not to do it.

It’s not like they hid this information, if you set yourself up as admin it told you that was a bad idea, if you turned off automatic updates it told you that was a bad idea, if you chose not to run the protection suite that comes with the OS it told you that was a bad idea. If you chose to ignore ALL those warning, then why is that MS’s fault? Nobody is expecting you to shoot in the 70s from the back tees, you’re just being expected not to blame the caddy when you ignored his club recommendation and the shot went where you didn’t want.

So you’re saying it’s relatively simple for a layman (like myself) to never have any problems with any kind of malware, sypware, pop-ups, etc., as long as I follow a few relatively simple instructions and purchase no aftermarket products?

Well it looks like it’s mine and millions of other users faults when crazy things happen to our computers. My last machine was about 3 years old. Each pc I got I googled and went here and other places to see what I should do about all of these things and always went with what was the highest rated,etc. programs to prevent all of these evildoings on the internet and in my email, etc. I STILL had tons of problems and I’m not an idiot, I grew tired of having to go through all of this BS that is second nature to someone who is proficient on a pc like you. What seems easy and obvious to you is complicated and tiresome to me.

My point is I don’t expect people to come to the back tees with me and shoot in the 70’s because it’s easy for me it took tons of work to get that good. You have never had a freeze, crash, restart? You are the EXCEPTION. I shoot 70’s from the back tees, I am the EXCEPTION.

I did research, etc. wound up spending $$$$ on Norton everthing, was I protected from everything? No. So many of you computer proficient people take SO MUCH for granted about what’s “easy”, “second nature”, “common sense”, etc. Every month I was trying to get rid of some stupid file or something that invaded my computer and slowed it to a screeching halt no matter how much I spent on protection. I was always googling for help, checking what free applications there were also to protect me, etc. My PC was a PITA!!!

I’m the same idiot using apple stuff and I have none of my past problems, my point being I don’t care if it’s “my” fault that I had problems with my windows computer. I didn’t like being imposed upon and I didn’t like learning all about my computer the way so many others do and the gazillion tricks you guys know to keep your pc’s running spotlessly. I tried and it NEVER worked for me.

So I went with Apple, the computer for “dummies” and you know what I haven’t had all of the BS problems described above for over a year now, that alone was worth it. I don’t need mega processing power for the buck etc., I want to be happy and ignorant and able to use my computer without all of the headaches that every last one of my pc’s gave me.

You keep telling me it was my fault, let’s assume you’re right. It was too much work for me to stay ahead of the curve, and I found it 10 times more annoying than interesting. Some people hate golf, I love golf, but I can accept that they hate it. I hated and ultimately resented trying to protect my pc from slowing down, freezing,etc.

I don’t care that it’s Apple, if there was a computer company that was called simpering sissy boy inc. that made a computer that I didn’t have to worry about I would buy it and say yes, my computer is a simpering sissy boy and I haven’t had any issues with it.