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Comment Re:Not only during install. (Score 1) 277

The other method, of course, is to set up as MS wants, then use your admin privileges to set up local admin and user accounts, log in as local admin, then delete the MS account account. Pain in the neck, and MS will make it as difficult as possible

They haven't so far. It's as simple as going to the user accounts in control panel and adding a new user, even with Home. I just did it two weeks ago with my mother's new PC.

Comment Re:The "antenna array" is a McGuffin (Score 1) 342

So following the "letter" instead of the "intent" of the law is "abuse" now? What about when the government follows the "letter" of a three-srikes law, and sentences (or threatens to sentence) someone for their third strike, which happens to be lifting a snickers bar? Or uses forfeiture laws, which were "intended" to punish drug dealers to take whatever they want from anyone they want (like "your underage son got a blow job from his sixth-month-older-but-over-legal-age girlfriend in your car, so it's ours now")?

Comment Re:The original /. (Score 1) 276

I remember all that, plus using Norton's defrag to put IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS on the floppy first, followed by CONFIG.SYS, then the drivers in the order they appeared in CONFIG.SYS, then COMMAND.COM and AUTOEXEC.BAT, then anything in AUTOEXEC.BAT in the order they appeared, just to get the boot time down. I think I got the boot time down to a quarter of what it was, if not faster.

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