Effective configurability, please! (Score 1)

As we all probably have noticed, turning things on by default actually tends to make work more complicated for IT staff. Already now you have to do a number of little tweaks to have your computer run smoothly without all these annoying animated toys flying around.

Security is of course a different matter than these so called eye candy toys but I wish to have effective control over what is running in my computer and what isn't. For example there are performance-critical applications in which a workstation is running without a network connection. That's a far better protection against worms than any firewall, so I want to be able to switch all unnecessary software off from using the workstation's resources.

I just hope that the future developers will not forget about experienced users and support people while trying to meet the newbies' needs. Other than that, security's all good of course.