To: dayglored
Why in the world would I try to fix something that works and does what I want?
/johnny
To: JRandomFreeper
Good question. Running Win XP SP3 here. Installed in July, 2008. “Patches” applied = none. Works fine, never had a virus (Avast in use). Kerio firewall (no longer available).
5 posted on
05/13/2015 6:23:04 AM PDT by
upchuck
(The current Federal Government is what the Founding Fathers tried to prevent. WAKE UP!! Amendment V)
To: JRandomFreeper
Ummmm, you love making trouble?
6 posted on
05/13/2015 6:23:04 AM PDT by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
To: JRandomFreeper; upchuck
If you've got a setup that works for you and you're NOT connected to the Internet, no problem.
But that's far from the typical Windows user case.
Anybody surfing the web these days with an unpatched system is asking for more trouble than if they do the patches, statistically speaking.
7 posted on
05/13/2015 6:25:25 AM PDT by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
To: JRandomFreeper
Agree.
Too many updates/upgrades from MS and other software companies cause more problems than they resolve.
Last year, for example, one of the Win7 updates caused some laptops to crash and go into a cycle of restart-crash-restart-crash.
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I quit Firefox for similar reasons. Updates killed extensions or conflicted with Flash video. Opening a PDF is a crap shoot — sometimes it will open, most times not.
8 posted on
05/13/2015 6:27:48 AM PDT by
TomGuy
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