I had XP and did those things and more and it only took one misstep somewhere for the freeze, crash, restart process to begin. Not to mention the endless alerts of all the times I had been “protected”, hours of scans, defrags, etc, it never ended. I have none of these annoyances with apple.
If I wanted to be computer savvy, I would, I have no interest. I want to be able to use the applications of the computer, not understand the inner workings, etc. I understand these things are very easy for a lot of experienced PC people, but not for ME.
It is very easy for ME to shoot in the 70’s from the back tees of any golf course in the world, I don’t expect that from everyone I play with though.
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.